October Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same October birthday as you. The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
October 11
- 1758 - Wilhelm Olbers discovered the asteroids Pallas and Vesta
- 1821 - Englishmen, George Williams founded the YMCA
- 1844 - Henry John Heinz founded the prepared-foods company, Heinz 57 varieties
- 1884 - German chemist Friedrich C R Bergius derived benzine from brown coal, and won the Nobel prize
October 12
- 1860 - Elmer Sperry was the inventor of the gyrocompass
- 1875 - British occultist, Aleister Crowley
- 1923 - American nutritionist, Jean Nidetch invented Weight Watchers
October 13
- 1769 - Horace H Hayden was considered the architect of the American system of dental education and the organizer of professional dentistry, who also cofounded the first dental college.
- 1821 - German, Rudolf Virchow is referred to as the "Father of Pathology" and the founder of the field of Social Medicine.
- 1863 - French mining engineer, Auguste Rateau invented the Rateau steam turbine
October 14
- 1857 - Auto pioneer, Elwood Haynes built one of the earliest American autos
- 1900 - W. Edwards Deming was a noted American Scientist
- 1925 - Louis Cohen, physicist
- 1939 - fashion designer, Ralph Lauren reinvented chaps
- 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu was a noted Israeli scientist
October 15
- 1924 - Lee A Iacocca, CEO, Chrysler Corp
- 1937 - Anthony Hopkins, clinical neurologist
October 16
- 1708 - Swiss scientist, Albrecht von Haller, experimental physiology, Academy of Science
- 1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
- 1930 - John Polkinghorne, British Physicist
- 1979 - Matt Nagle, born in Massachusetts, quadriplegic, first to use brain-computer interface to control movement
Ocotober 17
- 1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician and cartographer
- 1806 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
- 1947 - Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher
Ocotber 18
- 1854 - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
- 1859 - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher, Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927
- 1947 - Luc Journet, Belgian physician, Order of Zonnetempel
- 1948 - Isabel E Allen, biostatician
October 19
- 1859 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains
- 1895 - Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist
- 1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983
October 20
- 1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
- 1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, Learn by doing
- 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron
- 1924 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist
