December Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same December birthday as you. The twelvth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
December 1
- 1743 - German chemist, Martin H Klaproth discovered uranium
- 1912 - Architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the World Trade Center, New York
December 2
- 1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark developed color TV and LP records
- 1946 - Italian designer, Gianni Versace
December 3
- 1753 - English inventor, Samuel Crompton invented the mule-jenny spinning machine
- 1795 - Rowland Hill invented the first adhesive postage stamp in 1840
- 1838 - American meteorologist, Cleveland Abbe considered the Father of the Weather Bureau
- 1886 - Swedish physicist, Karl MG Siegbahn invented the rontgen spectroscope and won the Nobel Prize in 1924
- 1900 - Austria biochemist, Richard Kuhn who worked with vitamins and won the Nobel Prize in 1938
- 1924 - John Backus inventor of FORTRAN computer language
- 1937 - English shoe manufacturer, Stephen Rubin invented the Reebok and Adidas line of shoes
December 4
- 1908 - American biologist A D Hershey researched bacteriophages and won the Nobel Prize in 1969
December 5
- 1901 - German physicist, Werner Heisenberg wrote theory of uncertainty and won the Nobel Prize in 1932
- 1903 - English physicist, Cecil Frank Powell discovered pion and won the Nobel Prize in 1950
December 6
- 1898 - Swedish sociologist and economist Gunnar Myrdal won the Nobel Prize in 1974
- 1918 - Harold Horace Hopkins invented the Endoscope
- 1928 - Bert Geoffrey Achong was a noted electron microscopist
December 7
- 1761 - Madame Tussaud invented the wax museum
- 1810 - German scientist, Theodor Schwann was the co-originator of cell theory
- 1928 - Linguist, Noam Chomsky founded transformational grammar
December 8
- 1765 - Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin
- 1861 - Georges Melies was the first filmmaker o film a fictional story
December 9
- 1868 - German phycist and chemist, Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in 1919
December 10
- 1851 - Melvil Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
