April Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same April birthday as you. The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
April 1
- 1578 - English physician, William Harvey discovered blood circulation
- 1858 - Italian sociologist, Gaetano Mosca wrote the Circulation of Elite
- 1865 - Germany chemist, Richard Zsigmondy won the Nobel Prize in 1925
- 1887 - American linguist, Leonard Bloomfield
- 1922 - American scientist, Alan Perlis
April 2
- 1618 - Mathematician & physicist, Francesco M. Grimaldi discovered light defraction
- 1841 - French engineer, Clement Ader
- 1875 - Walter Chrysler founded the Chrysler car company
- 1900 - German musicologist, Heinrich Besseler
- 1922 - Russian atomic physicist, Nikolaj G. Bassov worked with lasera and won the Nobel Prize in 1964
- 1948 - Noted astronomer & educator, Eleanor Margaret Burbridge
April 3
- 1837 - Writer & nature enthusiast, John Burroughs had the Burroughs Medal named after him
- 1934 - English ethologist, Jane Goodall studied African chimps
April 4
- 1809 - American mathematician & astronomer, Benjamin Pierce
- 1821 - Linus Yale was an American portrait painter and inventor, who invented the Yale cylinder lock
- 1823 - Karl Wilhelm Siemens was an inventor, who laid undersea cables
- 1826 - Zenobe Theophile Gramme invented an electric motor
- 1881 - Encylopediest, Charles Funk produced Funk and Wagnalls
- 1933 - English manufacturer, Robin Phillips invented a hand-dryer
April 5
- 1752 - Sebastien Erard invented improved pianos and harps
- 1838 - American invertebrate paleontologist, Alpheus Hyatt
- 1899 - American inventor, Alfred Blalock
- 1951 - Dean Kamen invented the Segway, the AutoSyringe, a mobile dialysis system, and the insulin pump
- 1954 - Computer programmer, Michael W. Butler invented the TODAY program
April 6
- 1920 - Swiss scientist, Edmond H. Fischer won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Edwin Krebs for their discoveries in reversible protein phosphorylation
- 1928 - Chemist, James D. Watson co-discovered the structure of DNA
- 1953 - American inventor, Andy Hertzfeld was a co-inventor of the Apple Macintosh, who started a new company called General Magic
April 7
- 1775 - American businessman, Francis Cabot Lowell invented the first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
- 1859 - Walter Camp was the father of American football, who invented many of the rules.
- 1860 - Noted American vegetarian, Will Keith Kellogg was the founder of the Kellogg Company, who invented a process of making flaked cereal, corn flakes, for use as a healthy breakfast cereal.
- 1869 - American botanist & explorer, David Grandison Fairchild brought new plants into the U.S.
- 1890 - Noted environmentalist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas was nicknamed the first Lady of the Everglades
April 8
- 1869 - American neurosurgeon, Harvey Cushing did the first blood pressure studies
- 1907 - Noted chemist Maurice Stacey
- 1911 - American chemist, Melvin Calvin won the Nobel Prize in 1961 for his work on photosynthesis
April 9
April 10
- 1755 - German physician, Samuel Hahnemann invented homeopathy
- 1917 - Organic chemist, Robert Burns Woodward won the Nobel prize in 1965
