Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 16
- 1497 - Birth of Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
- 1531 - Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
- 1698 - Birth of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (d. 1758)
- 1727 - Birth of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817)
- 1822 - Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
- 1824 - Birth of Peter Kosler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
- 1834 - Birth of Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
- 1848 - Birth of Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (d. 1935)
- 1891 - Birth of Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
- 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon
- 1937 - Birth of Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
- 1980 - Death of Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
- 1997 - Death of Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)