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 21
- 1660 Hubert Gautier was an engineer who wrote the first book on bridge building
- 1907 Roy Marshall was a well-known scientist who narrated the Nature of Things
August 22
- 1860 Paul Nipkow was a German TV pioneer and inventor
- 1920 Denton Cooley was a heart surgeon who performed the first artifical heart transplant
August 23
- 1926 Clifford Geertz was a famous cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, who described culture as a system of symbols and actions which convey meaning
- 1928 Vera Rubin was a famous American scientist who discovered dark matter
- 1933 Manfred Donike was a famous chemist who invented drug testing
August 24
- 1880 Joshua Cowen was an inventor who helped invent the flashlight and invented the electric toy train
- 1898 Albert Claude was a Belgian cytologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for for discoveries of cell structure and function
- 1918 Ray McIntire was the chemical engineer who invented styrofoam
August 25
- 1841 Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and thyroid specialist who won the Nobel Prize in 1909
- 1916 Frederick Robbin was an American bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954
August 26
- 1740 Joseph Montgolfier was a French aeronaut who invented successful hot air ballooning
- 1743 Antoine Lavoisier was a famous French scientist who invented the term oxygen
- 1850 Charles Richet was a French physiologist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1913
- 1906 Albert Sabin, Russian-American microbiologist who invented the oral polio vaccine
- 1951 Edward Witten was a famous American mathematician and theoretical physicist who won the 2008 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics. He helped develop string theory, and developed mathematical processes to solve the multi-dimensional equations of string theory.
August 27
- 1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and inventor
- 1874 Karl Bosch was a German chemist and the founder of BASF who won the Nobel Prize in 1931
- 1877 Charles Stewart Rolls was a British auto manufacturer and founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd who invented the Rolls-Royce.
- 1890 Man Ray was an American artist and photographer who invented the dada movement
August 28
- 865 Rhazes was a famous ground-blazing Persian physician
- 1878 George Hoyt Whipple was an American astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1934
- 1917 Jack Kirby was a famous cartoonist who co-invented the X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Thor[/lik]
August 29
- 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus was an German mathematician, who invented trigonometry
- 1876 Charles Kettering was an American inventor who invented the auto self-starter or ignition
- 1904 Werner Forssman was a German urologist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1956
- 1959 Stephen Wolfram was an English computer scientist, who invented the computational software Mathematica.
August 30
- 1852 Jacobus Henricus was a Dutch physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1901
- 1884 Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist who worked with colloids and won the Nobel Prize in 1926
- 1912 Edward Purcell was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1952
- 1927 Geoffrey Beene was an American dress designer who won 8 Coty Awards
August 31
- 1663 Guillaume Amontons was a famous French physicist
- 1821 Hermann von Helmholtz was a famous German physicist
- 1870 Maria Montessori was a famous Italian educator, who invented the term spontaneous response
- 1889 A Provost Idell invented modern volleyball
