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 11
- 1895 - American inventor, Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond organ
- 1906 - Swiss scientist, Albert Hofmann first to synthesize LSD
January 12
- 1899 - Swiss chemist, Paul H Muller invented DDT and won the Nobel Prize in 1948
- 1903 - Russian nuclear physicist, Igor V Kurtshatov who built the first Russian nuclear bomb
- 1907 - Sergei Korolev, scientist
- 1935 - "Amazing" Kreskin, noted mentalist and magician
- 1950 - Marilyn R Smith was a noted microbiologist
January 13
- 1864 - German phyicist, Wilhelm K. W. Wien won the Nobel Prize in 1911
- 1927 - British scientist, Sydney Brenner
January 14
- 1907 - British chemist, Derek Richte wrote Aspects of learning and Memory
January 15
- 1908 - Edward Teller co-invented the H-bomb and worked on the Manhattan Project
- 1963 - American scientist, Bruce Schneier
January 16
- 1853 - French industrialist, Andre Michelin invented Michelin tires
- 1870 - German chemist, Wilhelm Normann who researched hardening of oils
- 1932 - Dian Fossey was a noted zoologist who wrote Gorillas in the Mist
January 17
- 1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste invented the first sound-on-film recording
- 1928 - English hair stylist, Vidal Sassoon founded Vidal Sasson
- 1949 - American scientist, Anita Borg
January 18
- 1813 - Joseph Glidden invented useable barbed wire
- 1854 - Thomas Watson assisted in the invention of the telephone
- 1856 - Surgeon, Daniel Hale Williams performed the first open heart operation
- 1933 - Ray Dolby invented the Dolby noise limiting system
January 19
January 20
- 1916 - Biochemist, Walter Bartley
