February Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same February birthday as you. The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
February 11
- 1846 - William Fox Talbot was a pioneer photographer and inventor
- 1898 - Hungarian physicist, Leo Szilard worked on the A-bomb worker and later became a peace activist
- 1925 - American psychologist, Virginia Johnson was part of the noted medical team of Masters and Johnson
- 1934 - English fashion designer, Mary Quant invented the Mod Look
February 12
- 1809 - English scientist, Charles Darwin, discovered the theory of evolution and wrote the "Origin of Species"
- 1813 - American scientist, James Dwight Dana
- 1815 - British scientist, Edward Forbes
- 1948 - American inventor, Ray Kurzweil invented the flatbed scanner, the Kurzweil reading machine, the Kurzweil 1000 OCR software, the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech-recognition software, and the Kurzweil 250 Music Synthesizer.
February 13
- 1910 - American Physicist, William Shockley co-invented the transistor and won the Nobel Prize in 1956
- 1923 - American test pilot, Chuck Yeager was the first man to break sound barrier
February 14
- 1838 - Inventor, Margaret Knight invented a method of making paper bags
- 1859 - Engineer & inventor, George Ferris invented the Ferris Wheel
- 1869 - English physicist, Charles Wilson invented the Wilson cloud chamber and won the Nobel Prize
- 1911 - American internist & inventor, Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney
- 1917 - American x-ray crystallographer, Herbert A Hauptman won the Nobel Prize in 1985
February 15
- 1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick invented a mechanical reaper
- 1819 - Christopher Sholes invented a typewriter
- 1834 - English electrical engineer, William Preece was a pioneer in wireless technology.
- 1934 - Swiss computer programmer, Niklaus Wirth invented PASCAL a computer language
February 16
- 1740 - Italian printer, Giambattista Bodoni invented typeface designs
- 1926 - Mechanical engineer, Jack Levy
February 17
- 1781 - French inventor, Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec invented the stethoscope
- 1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward founded the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward
- 1867 - English chocolate manufacturer, William Cadbury founded Cadbury
- 1874 - American scientist, Thomas J. Watson founded IBM
February 18
- 1743 - Italian physicist, Alessandro Volta invented the voltiac pile, the first battery.
- 1898 - Car manufacturer, Enzo Ferrari invented the Ferrari
- 1914 - Chemist, Edward George Edwards
February 19
- 1473 - Astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1859 - Swedish physicist & chemist, Svante August Arhenius won the Nobel Prize in 1903
- 1927 - Cognac manufacturer, Rene Firino-Martell invented several types of Cognac
February 20
- 1844 - Austrian physicist, Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann father of statistical mechanics
- 1901 - Microbiologist, Rene Jules Dubos wrote Health and Disease
- 1937 - German biochemist, Robert Huber won the Nobel Prize in 1988
