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 21
- 1743 - John Fitch invented a steamboat
- 1815 - Dentist, Horace Wells pioneered the use of medical anethesia
- 1908 - Swedish astrophysicist, Bengt Stromgren studied gas clouds
- 1912 - German biochemist, Konrad Bloch researched cholesterol and won the Nobel Prize in 1964
- 1921 - Barney Clark was the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart
January 22
- 1909 - Russian physicist, Lev D Landau won the Nobel Prize in 1962
- 1925 - Leslie Silver was a noted English paint manufacturer
January 23
- 1929 - Canadian chemist, John Polanyi won the Nobel Prize in 1986
January 24
- 1880 - Elisabeth Achelis invented the World Calendar
- 1888 - German inventor, Ernst Heinrich Heinkel built the first rocket powered aircraft
- 1928 - English zoologist, Desmond Morris researched body language
- 1947 - American scientist, Michio Kaku
January 25
- 1627 - Irish physicist, Robert Boyle wrote Boyle's Law of Ideal Gases
- 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky was a noted genetist and the author of Mankind Evolving
January 26
- 1907 - Austrian endocrinologist, Hans Selye demonstrated the existence of biological stress
- 1911 - American nuclear physicist, Polykarp Kusch who won the Nobel Prize in 1955
January 27
- 1834 - Chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev invented the periodic table of the elements
- 1903 - British physiologist & neurologist, John Eccles
January 28
- 1706 - English printer, John Baskerville invented typeface
- 1855 - William Seward Burroughs invented an adding machine
- 1884 - French astronomer, Lucien H d'Azambuja discovered the chromosome of the sun
- 1903 - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was a noted crystallographer and the first woman member of the Royal Society
- 1922 - American biochemist, Robert W. Holley researched RNA and won the Nobel Prize in 1968
January 29
- 1810 - German mathematician, Earnest E Kummer
- 1850 - Lawrence Hargrave invented box kite
- 1901 - Allen B DuMont invented an improved cathode ray tube
- 1926 - Abdus Salam was a noted theoretical physicist
January 30
- 1899 - English microbiologist, Max Theiler won the Nobel Prize in 1951
- 1911 - Biochemist, Alexander George Ogston
- 1925 - Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse
- 1949 - Peter Agre a noted American scientist
January 31
- 1868 - Chemist, Theodore William Richards researched atomic weights and won the Nobel Prize in 1914
- 1929 - Germany, physicist, Rudolf Mossbauer won the Nobel Prize in 1961
