June Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same June birthday as you. The sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
June 1
- 1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano manufacturer, who invented improvements to pianos
- 1866 Charles Davenport, American biologist who pioneered new standards of taxonomy
- 1907 Frank Whittle, English aviation inventor of a jet engine
- 1917 William Standish Knowles, American chemist that developed pharmaceutical compounds, Nobel Prize 2001
- 1957 Jeff Hawkins, American who invented the Palm Pilot and Treo
June 2
- 1758 Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff, Dutch physicist, hydraulic engineer, cartographer, and fortress architect
June 3
- 1761 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor of shrapnel
- 1904 Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
- 1947 John Dykstra, pioneer in the development of computers in filmmaking for special effects
June 4
- 1801 James Pennethorne, architect who designed Kennington Park and Victoria Park in London
- 1877 Heinrich Wieland, German chemist, who researched bile acids, made first synthesis of Adamsite, and isolated the toxin alpha-amanitin, the principal active agent of one of the world's most poisonous mushrooms, Nobel Prize 1927
- 1910 Christopher Cockerell invented the Hovercraft
June 5
- 1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker
- 1760 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist who discovered yttrium
- 1819 John Couch Adams, English astronomer who co-discovered Neptune
- 1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish opthalmologist, who researched the refractive properties of the eye to focus images (astigmatism), and invented an improved ophthalmoscope and corrective lenses for use after removal of a cataract, Nobel Prize 1911
- 1907 Rudolf Peierls, physicist with a major role in Britain's nuclear program, who co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum the first paper on constructing an atomic bomb from a small amount of fissionable uranium-235
- 1915 Lancelot Ware founded MENSA
- 1944 Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer was a pioneer of public-key cryptography
June 6
- 1436 Johannes Muller, astronomer who invented astronomical tables
- 1850 Karl Ferdinand Braun, German scientist who invented the first oscilloscope aka the Braun tube, and invented a form of wireless telegraphy, Nobel Prize 1909
- 1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, car manufacturuer who founded Chrysler Corporation in 1925
- 1886 Paul Dudley White, heart specialist who was the Father of preventive cardiology
- 1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist who co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981, providing the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of materials, Nobel Prize 1986
June 7
- 1502 Pope Gregory XIII invented the Gregorian calendar in 1582
- 1811 James Young Simpson, Scottish obsterician who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform, and successfully introduced chloroform into general medical use
- 1843 Susan Elizabeth Blow, American educator who invented kindergarten
- 1886 Henri Coanda, Romanian inventor and aviation scientist who designed early jet engines
- 1896 Robert Mulliken, American chemist and physicist, who was behind the early development of molecular orbital theory, Nobel Prize 1966
- 1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and writer, was the first to suggest the names Triton and Amalthea for the moons of Neptune and Jupiter, and published the magazine L'Astronomie
June 8
- 1625 Giovanni Cassini, French astronomer who discovered the moons of Saturn
- 1724 John Smeaton, British engineer who invented the air pump for diving gear
- 1916 Francis Crick, British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who co-discovered DNA structure, and had a crucial role in research related to revealing the genetic code, and who attempted to advance the scientific study of human consciousness with theoretical neurobiology, Nobel Prize 1962
- 1955 Tim Berners-Lee, computer pioneer who lead the development of the World Wide Web, HTML used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), and URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
June 9
- 1781 George Stephenson, English inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railroads
- 1812 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist who invented Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar
- 1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer who discovered Neptune
- 1875 Henry Dale, British physiologist who identified acetylcholine as a possible neurotransmitter, Nobel Prize 1936
- 1892 Helena Rubinstein, invented different cosmetics and founded of the Helena Rubinstein Company
- 1900 Fred Waring, American inventor of the Waring Blender
- 1915 Les Paul, American inventor who founded Les Paul guitar, and invented sound-on-sound, the eight-track recorder, over-dubbing, the electronic reverb effect, multi-track tape recording, and the Les Paul electric guitar
June 10
- 1706 John Dollond, English optician and inventor who was granted the first patent for achromatic lens
- 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German automobile designer who invented an effective gas motor engine, and the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine called the Otto Cycle Engine
- 1908 Ernst Chain, German chemist and bacteriologist who invented a manufacturing process for Penicillin G Procaine and made it available as medication, Nobel Prize 1945
- 1913 Wilbur Cohen was the first hired employee of the Social Security System
