Title: 1776 in science
Content: February 4 – Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, German naturalist (died 1837) ; February 14 – Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, German botanist (died 1858) ; March 27 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French botanist and politician (died 1854) ; April 1 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (died 1831) ; May 17 – Amos Eaton, American naturalist and pioneer of science education (died 1842) ; June 1 – Giuseppe Zamboni, Italian Catholic priest and physicist (died 1846) ; June 12 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (died 1847) ; July 16 ; Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (died 1827) ; Johann Georg von Soldner, German physicist (died 
Title: 1699 in science
Content: March 23 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, "father of American botany" (died 1777) ; August 17 – Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1777) ; September 12 – John Martyn, English botanist (died 1768) 
Title: 1776 in science
Content: February 18 – Lady Anne Monson, English-born botanist (born 1726) ; June 13 – William Battie, English psychiatrist (born 1703 or 1704) ; June 20 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (born 1704) ; November 17 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (born 1710) 
Title: 1776 in science
Content:  ; July 22 – Etheldred Benett, English geologist (died 1845) ; July 26 – Pierre Fouquier, French physician (died 1850) ; August 2 – Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist, discoverer of cadmium (died 1835) ; August 6 – Amedeo Avogadro, Piedmontese chemist (died 1856) ; October 4 – Mariano Lagasca, Spanish botanist (died 1839) ; October 13 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician (died 1862) ; November 14 – Henri Dutrochet, French physician (died 1847) ; November 18 - Mauro Ruscóni, Italian physician ans zoologist (died 1849) ; December 3 – Nicolas Charles Seringe, French physician and botanist (died 1858) ; December 31 – Johann Spurzheim, German physician (died 1832) 
Title: 1748 in science
Content: February 27 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish botanist (died 1820) ; March 5 – Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (died 1810) ; March 10 – John Playfair, Scottish scientist (died 1819) ; April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1836) ; April 13 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor (died 1814) ; May 10 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (died 1830) ; June 30 – Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (died 1845) ; August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (died 1804) ; December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died 1822) 
Title: 1766 in science
Content: March 10 &ndash; Jane Colden, American botanist (born 1724) ; May 5 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684) ; November 29 – John Wyatt, English inventor (born 1700) 
Title: 1886 in science
Content: February 25 – Lady Katherine Sophia Kane, Irish botanist (born 1811) ; March 15 – Anastasie Fătu, Moldavian and Romanian physician and naturalist (born 1816) ; July 1 – Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German mineralogist and geologist (born 1806) ; August 17 – Aleksandr Butlerov, Russian chemist (born 1828) ; November 14 – Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1820). ; November 25 – Richard Maack, Russian naturalist, geographer, and anthropologist (born 1825) ; September 18 – Sampson Gamgee, English surgeon (born 1828). ; December 26 – Theodor von Oppolzer, Austrian astronomer (born 1841) 
Title: 1777 in science
Content: September 22 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699) ; September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (born 1728) ; December 7 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708) ; Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (born 1684) 
Title: 1782 in science
Content: April 7 &ndash; Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist (died 1865) ; June 3 – Charles Waterton, English naturalist and explorer (died 1865) ; June 16 – Olry Terquem, French Jewish geometer (died 1862) 
Title: March 26
Content: 1516 &ndash; Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and zoologist (d. 1565) ; 1554 &ndash; Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne (d. 1611) ; 1584 &ndash; John II, duke of Zweibrücken (d. 1635) 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": Well a scientist in the field of botany died on February 18, 1776.
Answer: True