January Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same January birthday as you. The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
January 1
- 1854 - Scottish Scientist, James G Frazer
January 2
- 1822 - German physicist, Rudolph J E Clausius who researched thermodynamics
- 1920 - Scientist & writer, Isaac Asimov wrote I Robot & Foundation Trilogy
January 3
- 1928 - Canadian, Frank Ross Anderson was the International Chess Master of 1954
January 4
- 1643 - Isaac Newton was a noted physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, who invented a telescope
- 1797 - German astronomer, Wilhelm Beer made the first Moon map
- 1809 - Louis Braille invented a reading system for the blind
- 1813 - British inventor, Isaac Pitman invented the stenographic shorthand
- 1872 - Austrian, Edmund Rumpler was an auto and airplane builder
- 1940 - British physicist, Brian Josephson won the Nobel Prize in 1973
January 5
- 1855 - King Camp Gillette invented the safety razor
- 1859 - DeWitt B Brace invented the spectrophotometer
- 1874 - Joseph Erlanger invented shock therapy and won the Nobel Prize in 1944
- 1900 - Physicist, Dennis Gabor invented hologtraphy
January 6
January 7
- 1539 - Spanish lexicographer, Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco
January 8
- 1891 - German, Walter Bothe was a subatomic particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954
- 1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum was a artificial intelligence pioneer
- 1942 - English physicist, Stephen Hawking first revealed Black Holes and Baby Universes
January 9
- 1870 - Civil engineer, Joseph B Strauss built the Golden Gate Bridge
- 1890 - Czecho writer, Karel Capek wrote the play R U R and invented the name robot
January 10
