March Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same March birthday as you. The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
March 1
- 1864 - Rebecca Lee was the first black woman to get a medical degree
March 2
- 1876 - Gosta Forsell was a noted Swedish radiologist
- 1902 - Nuclear physicist & atomic scientist, Edward Uhler Condon worked on the Manhattan Project
March 3
- 1831 - George Pullman invented the railway sleeping car
- 1838 - American astronomer, George W. Hill plotted the Moon's orbit
- 1841 - Canada oceanographer, John Murray discovered the depths of the ocean
- 1845 - German mathematician, Georg Cantor discovered transfinite numbers
- 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell invented the first working telephone
- 1877 - African-American inventor, Garrett Morgan invented an improved traffic light and improved gas mask.
- 1895 - Economist, Ragnar Frisch, Norway won the first Nobel prize in economy in 1969
- 1909 - Jay Morris Arena was a noted inventor and pediatrician
- 1918 - American biochemist, Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in 1959
March 4
- 1754 - Physician, Benjamin Waterhouse invented a smallpox vaccine
- 1835 - Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered the canals of Mars
- 1909 - American builder, Harry B. Helmsley designed the Empire State Building
- 1934 - Ethologist, Jane van Lawick-Goodall was a chimp expert who won the 1974 Walker Prize
- 1939 - James Aubrey Turner was a noted scientist
March 5
- 1574 - England, mathematician, William Oughtred invented the slide rule
- 1637 - Dutch painter, John van der Heyden invented the fire extinguisher
- 1794 - French physicist, Jacques Babinet was also a noted mathematician and astronomer
- 1824 - American physician, Elisha Harris founded the American Public Health Assoc
- 1825 - German photographer, Joseph Albert invented the albertotype
- 1893 - Emmett J Culligan founded a water treatment organization
- 1932 - Scientist, Walter Charles Marshall
March 6
- 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison was considered the father of American watchmaking
- 1939 - Computer inventor, Adam Osborne the Osborne Computer Corporation
March 7
- 1765 - French inventor, Joseph Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura
- 1837 - Henry Draper was an astro-spectro-photographer who photographed the Moon and Jupiter
- 1938 - American scientist, David Baltimore
March 8
- 1787 - Karl Ferdinand von Grafe father of modern plastic surgery
- 1862 - Joseph Lee developed playgrounds
- 1879 - German physicist and chemist, Otto Hahn won the Nobel Prize in 1944 for his discovery of radiothorium & actinium
- 1886 - Chemist, Edward Kendall isolated cortisone and won the Nobel Prize in 1950
March 9
- 1791 - American surgeon, George Hayward was the first to use ether
- 1900 - American scientist, Howard Aiken invented the Mark I computer
- 1923 - French fashion designer, Andre Courreges invented the miniskirt
- 1943 - American scientist, Jef Raskin
March 10
- 1940 - Psychologist, Wayne Dyer wrote the Universe Within You