* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist.

* 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1663 )

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

* 1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist ( d. 1993 )

* 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist ( b. 1737 )

* 1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist ( d. 1835 )

* 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist ( b. 1907 )

Italy | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta showing his " Battery ( electricity ) | battery " to France | French emperor Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century.

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954 ) was an Italian physicist, naturalized American later in his life, particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli.

* 1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist ( d. 1642 )

However, the general concept of functional had previously been introduced in 1887 by the Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra.

* 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist ( d. 1827 )

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

* 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist ( b. 1761 )

* 1931 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist

The Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo brought together the ideas of other great thinkers of his time and began to analyze motion in terms of distance traveled from some starting position and the time that it took.

* 1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist ( b. 1716 )

* 1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist ( b. 1797 )

* 1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate

In 1902 the ten-degree Mercalli scale was expanded to twelve degrees by Italian physicist Adolfo Cancani.

* In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered the United States of America's east coast.

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

* 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer ( d. 1671 )

* 1876 – Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician ( d. 1970 )

* 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician ( d. 1780 )

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (; 15 May 1567 ( baptized ) – 29 November 1643 ) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.

* Paper on " Corrado Gini and Italian Statistics under Fascism " by Giovanni Favero June 2002

* 1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal ( b. 1509 )

* 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer ( b. 1504 )

* 1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer ( b. 1313 )

* 1463 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist ( d. 1494 )

Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile in The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism promoted the concept of conflict as an act of progress, stating that " mankind only progresses through division, and progress is achieved through the clash and victory of one side over another ".

* 1534 – Giovanni de ' Bardi, Italian writer ( d. 1612 )

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )

* 1615 – Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian polymath and playwright ( b. 1535 )

* 1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1692 )

* 1958 – Giovanni Lavaggi, Italian racing driver

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

* 1552-After the requests from the inhabitants of the town, Charles I of Spain ( the Emperor Charles V ) sent the Italian engineer Giovanni Battista Calvi to strengthen the defences of the town.