Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 29
- 1689 - Death of Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
- 1731 - Death of Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
- 1737 - Death of Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1796 - Birth of Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
- 1800 - Birth of Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
- 1856 - Birth of Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)
- 1891 - Death of Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
- 2004 - Death of Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)