Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 12
- 1664 - Death of Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
- 1682 - Death of Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
- 1863 - Birth of Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
- 1864 - Birth of George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
- 1913 - Birth of Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Birth of Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1945 - Death of Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)