- male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
- Sir Isaac Newton <small><nowiki>[</nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> was an English physicist, ma...
- male, deceased (1630)
- Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century...
- male, deceased (1829)
- Thomas Young (June 13, 1773-May 10, 1829) was an English polymath, contributing to optics, physiology, and Egyptology, among other fields.
- male, 87 years old
- Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence...
- male, deceased (1039)
- "' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
- male, deceased (873)
- "' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...
- male, deceased (1783)
- Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...
- male, deceased (1916)
- Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known...
- male, deceased (1855)
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
- male, deceased (1945)
- Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an...
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