Astronomy and space exploration
- January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
Chemistry
Computer science
Environment
Exploration
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
Deaths
- March 10 – C. B. van Niel (b. 1897), Dutch American microbiologist.
- April 20 – Charles Richter (b. 1900), American geophysicist and inventor.
- July 20 – Bruno de Finetti (b. 1906), Italian statistician.
- August 5 – Arnold Wilkins (b. 1907), English pioneer of radar.
- August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899), Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 6 – Rodney Porter (b. 1917), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 7 – George Pólya (b. 1887), Hungarian mathematician.
- September 10 – Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), American inventor.
- November 24 – László Bíró (b. 1899), Hungarian inventor.
- December 21 – Elliott Organick (b. 1925), American computer scientist and educator
- c. December 26 – Dian Fossey (b. 1932), American primatologist (murdered).
References
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