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 21
- 1833 - Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel invented the detonator for dynamite and nitroglycerin
- 1839 - Georg von Siemens founded the Deutsche Bank
October 22
- 1896 - Biochemist, Charles Glenn King discovered vitamin C
- 1903 - American biologist, George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in 1958
- 1905 - Czechoslovakian, Karl Jansky was the first person to discover cosmic radio emissions in 1932.
October 23
- 1942 - English cosmetic manufacturer, Anita Roddick founded the Body Shop
October 24
- 1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, considered the father of microscopy because of the advances he made in microscope design and use.
- 1953 - American scientist, Steven Hatfill
- 1908 - Zoologist, John Alwyne Kitching
October 25
- 1790 - Scottish inventor, Robert Stirling
- 1811 - French mathematician, Evariste Galois wrote the Theory of G
- 1877 - Astronomer, Henry Norris Russell discovered the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- 1929 - Astrophysicist, Roger John Tayler
- 1945 - Physicist, David Norman Schramm
October 26
- 1855 - Charles Post invented the breakfast cereal Post Cereals
- 1917 - Cartoon character, Felix the Cat was invented
- 1921 - Land economist, George Houston
October 27
- 1811 - Issac Singer invented a home sewing machine
- 1872 - Emily Post was an authority on etiquette
- 1917 - Oliver Tambo co-founder of the African National Congress
October 28
- 1793 - American gunmaker, Eliphalet Remington invented a rifle
- 1855 - Russian botanist, Ivan V Mitshurin identified many new types of fruit
- 1893 - English chemist, Christopher K Ingold
- 1914 - Amaerican medical researcher, Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine
- 1914 - British bio-chemist, Richard Lawrence Millington Synge who won the Nobel Prize in 1952
- 1967 - American inventor John Romero
October 29
- 1656 - English scientist, Edmond Halley
October 30
- 1880 - Russian physicist, Abram F Joffe
- 1928 - American scientist, Daniel Nathans
October 31
- 1755 - Flemish agronomist, Jean Louis van Aelbroeck
- 1815 - Germany mathematician, Karl Weierstrass wrote the theory of functions
- 1835 - German chemist, J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer won the Nobel Prize in 1905
- 1847 - Italian physicist, Galileo Ferraris invented 2-fasenmotor
- 1898 - French statistician, Alfred Sauvy wrote Affluence and Population
- 1935 - American mathematician, Ronald Graham
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