Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 22
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October 22:
- 1511 – Birth of Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
- 1729 – Birth of Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
- 1770 – Birth of Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
- 1792 – Death of Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
- 1881 – Birth of Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1896 – Birth of Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
- 1903 – Birth of George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- 1921 – Birth of Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
- 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times
- 1986 – Death of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
- 2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1
