July Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same July birthday as you.
July 11
- 1838 John Wanamaker invented one of the first (if not the first) true department store, invented the first White Sale, modern price tags, and the first in-store restaurant. He also pioneered the use of money-back guarantees and newspaper ads to advertise his retail goods.
July 12
- 1730 Josiah Wedgwood, England pottery designer and manufacturer, who invented the technique for making Wedgwood china and industrialized the manufacturing of pottery.
- 1849 William Osler, Canada physician considered a Father of modern medicine, wrote about the circulatory system
- 1854 George Eastman, American inventor who invented the Kodak camera and rolled photographic film
- 1895 Buckminster Fuller, American architect who invented the geodesic dome
- 1913 Willis Lamb, American physicist who discovered how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom, Nobel Prize 1955
July 13
- 1826 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist who formulated the Reaction of Cannizzaro
- 1944 Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor who invented Rubik's cube
July 14
- 1857 Frederick Maytag invented the Maytag washing machine
- 1874 Andre Debierne, French chemist who discovered the element actinium
- 1918 Jay Forrester, digital computer pioneer who invented core memory
- 1921 Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry, invented Wilkinson's catalyst, and discovered the structure of ferrocene, Nobel Prize 1973
- 1924 James Whyte Black, Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who invented Propranolol, and synthesized Cimetidine, Nobel Prize 1988
July 15
- 1817 John Fowler, English engineer who nuilt the London Metropolitan Railway
July 16
- 1704 John Kay, English machinist who invented the flying shuttle that improved looms
- 1801 Julius Plucker, German mathematician and physicist, who formulated Plucker formulas and was the first person to identify Cathode rays
- 1888 Frits Zernike invented the phase-contrast microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materials, Nobel Prize 1953
- 1907 Orville Redenbacher invented and sold Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn
July 17
July 18
- 1635 Robert Hooke, English physicist and the first person to see micrographia by using a microscope
- 1853 Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist who discovered and explained the Zeeman effect, and derived the transformation equations used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time, Nobel Prize 1902
July 19
- 1814 Samuel Colt, American gunmaker who invented the Colt revolver
- 1865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon who started the Mayo clinic
July 20
- 1897 Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist who invented a method to artificially synthesize vitamin C, Nobel Prize 1950
- 1947 Gerd Binnig, German physicist who invented the scanning tunneling microscope that could view individual atoms, Nobel Prize 1986
