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 11
- 1858 Christian Eijkman was a famous bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1929
- 1926 Bernard Ashley was a famous English fashion designer who founded Laura Ashley
- 1950 Steve Wozniak was a computer inventor and the co-founder of Apple Computers
August 12
August 13
- 1655 Johann Christoph Denner was the inventor of the clarinet
- 1814 Anders Jonas Engstrom was a Swedish physicist who co-invented the spectroscope
- 1819 George Gabriel Stokes was a famous physicist and mathematician who co-invented the spectroscope
- 1888 John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor of a television system
- 1902 Felix Wankel was a German inventor who invented the Wankel rotary-piston engine
- 1912 Salvador Luria was an Italian-American biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
- 1918 Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 and 1980
August 14
- 1777 Hans Christian Oersted was a famoud Dutch physicist and chemist who wrote "View of Chemical Law" and was an early experimentor in the field of electromagnetism
- 1861 Bion Joseph Arnold was a famous electrical engineer and inventor
- 1883 Ernest Just was a famous biologist who pioneered cell division
- 1903 John Ringling North was a famous circus director who co-founded the Ringling Bros
August 15
- 1794 Elias Fries was a famous Swedish botanist who invented the system mycologicum
- 1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie was a French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1929
- 1896 Leon Theremin was an electronic musical instrument inventor who invented the Theremin which was named after the inventor
August 16
- 1845 Gabriel Lippmann was a famous French physicist who invented the first color photographic plate and was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for this process.
- 1848 Francis Darwin was a famous English scientist and the son of Charles Darwin who carried on his work
- 1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg was a football pioneer and the inventor of the tackling dummy
- 1892 Harold Foster was a famous cartoonist who invented "Prince Valiant"
- 1897 Robert Ringling was a circus master who co-founded the Ringling Bros
- 1904 Wendell Stanley was a famous biochemist and the first to crystallize a virus. He won the Nobel Prize in 1946
August 17
- 1870 Frederick Russell invented the first successful typhoid fever vaccine
- 1906 Hazel Bishop was a famous chemist and cosmetics manufacturer who invented the first indelible or smear-proof lipstick
August 18
- 1834 Marshall Field founded the Marshall Field Department Store
- 1883 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was a famous French fashion designer who invented the house of Chanel
- 1904 Max Factor, Jr. was the CEO of Max Factor Cosmetics and son of the founder and inventor Max Factor
- 1927 Marvin Harris was a famous American scientist
August 19
- 1785 Seth Thomas invented the mass production of clocks
- 1906 Philo T Farnsworth was the inventor of electronic TV
- 1919 Malcolm Forbes was a famous publisher who founded Forbes Magazine
August 20
- 1908 Kingsley Davis was a sociologist who invented the term population explosion
