August Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same August birthday as you. The eigth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
August 1
- 1849 George Mercer Dawson was a famous Canadian scientist
- 1889 John F Mahoney who developed a pencillin treatment for syphillis
- 1936 Yves Saint Laurent is considered the greatest French fashion designer of the 20th century
August 2
- 1834 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was the French sculptor who patented the Statue of Liberty
- 1835 Elisha Grey was an inventor who invented an early telephone
- 1926 Betsy Bloomingdale founded the famous department store
August 3
- 1959 Koichi Tanaka was a famous Japanese scientist
August 4
- 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte invented the modern pencil
- 1859 Knut Hamsun was an Norwegian writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1920
August 5
- 1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger invented Julian dating
- 1802 Niels H Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who invented Abel's Comparisons
- 1904 Kenneth Thimann was a famous botanist
- 1906 Wassely Leontief was a Russian-American economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1973
August 6
- 1859 J Arthur S Berson was a famous Austrian meteorologist who made famous hot air balloon flights over the Amazon
- 1867 James Loeb was a famous American businessman
- 1908 Sol Adler famous economist who invented Sinophile
August 7
- 1779 Carl Ritter was the cofounder of the modern science of geography
- 1783 John Heathcoat invented lace-making machinery
- 1870 Gustav Krupp was a famous German businessman
- 1880 Ernst Laqueur was a famous who discovered sexual hormones
- 1886 Louis Hazeltine was the inventor of the neutrodyne circuit that made radio possible
- 1903 Louis Leakey was a famous anthropologist who won the 1964 Richard Hooper Medal
August 8
- 1861 William Bateson was a famous English biologist who invented the term "genetics"
- 1901 Ernest Lawrence was a famous scientist and inventor who invented the Cyclotron and won the Nobel Prize in 1939
- 1902 Paul Dirac was a famous English physicist who invented quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize in 1933
- 1922 Rudi Gernreich was a famous designer who invented the first women's topless swimsuit and the miniskirt
- 1931 Roger Penrose was a famous English physicist
August 9
- 1819 William Thomas Green Morton was a dentist that invented the used of ether in dentistry
- 1896 Jean Piaget was a famous Swiss developmental psychologist and zoologist
- 1897 Ralph Wyckoff was a pioneer of x-ray crystallography
- 1911 William A Fowler was a famous astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983
- 1927 Marvin Minsky was a famous computer scientist at MIT who made inventions related to artifical intelligence
August 10
- 1861 Almroth Wright was a famous English bacteriologist
