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June 16
- 1633 - Birth of Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
- 1801 - Birth of Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
- 1806 - Birth of Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
- 1826 - Birth of Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
- 1840 - Birth of Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
- 1871 - Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
- 1880 - Birth of Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
- 1888 - Birth of Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
- 1897 - Birth of Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1902 - Birth of Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
- 1902 - Death of Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
- 1902 - Birth of George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company incorporates.
- 1909 - Birth of Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
- 1915 - Birth of John Tukey, American statistician
- 1920 - Birth of Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Death of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
- 1963 - Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space in the Soviet Space Program Vostok 6 Mission.
- 1977 - Death of Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- 1981 - Death of Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
- 2000 - The Science Council, the umbrella body for scientific professional institutes and learned societies in the UK, is launched.
