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 21
- 1869 - Architect Albert Kahn invented modern factory design
- 1884 - American mathematician, George D. Birkhoff discovered aesthetic measure
- 1932 - American scientist, Walter Gilbert
March 22
- 1868 - American physicist, Robert A. Millikan discovered the photoelectric effect and won the Nobel Prize in 1923
- 1907 - American scientist, James M. Gavin
- 1924 - Al Neuharth founded the newspaper USA Today
- 1926 - Julius Marmur was a noted biochemist and geneticist
- 1931 - American scientist, Burton Richter
- 1946 - American scientist, Rudy Rucker
March 23
- 1881 - German chemist, Hermann Staudinger was a noted plastics researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 1953
- 1907 - Swiss pharmacologist, Daniel Bovet won the Nobel Prize in 1957
- 1912 - German rocker scientist, Wernher von Braun
March 24
- 1809 - French math whiz, Joseph Liouville discovered transcendental numbers
- 1814 - American naturalist, Galen Clark discovered Mariposa Grove
- 1835 - Austrian physicist, Josef Stefan wrote Stefan-Boltzmann law
- 1871 - British nuclear physicist, Ernest Rutherford is considered the Father of Nuclear Physics and won the Nobel Prize in 1908
- 1874 - Hungarian magician & escape artist, Harry Houdini invented a diver's suit
- 1884 - Dutch physical chemist, Peter Debye won the Nobel Prize in 1936
- 1903 - German bio-chemist, Adolph F J Butenandt won the Nobel Prize in 1939
- 1911 - Joseph Barbera was an noted animator and one half of Hanna-Barbera
- 1936 - Canadian scientist, David Suzuki is also a noted television host and narrator
- 1947 - English computer manufacturer, Alan Sugar founded Amstrad Computers
March 25
- 1786 - Italian astronomer, physicist, & botanist, Giovanni B Amia
- 1867 - Gutzon Borglum was the Mount Rushmore sculptor
- 1914 - Italian humanitarian and agronomist, Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for inventing methods to increase food supply, and was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
March 26
- 1773 - Mathematician & astronomer, Nathaniel Bowditch invented the marine sextant
- 1821 - German economist, Ernst Engel
- 1821 - German statistician, Earnest Angel wrote the Law of Angel
- 1885 - British aviation pioneer, Robert Blackburn
- 1893 - American scientist, James Bryant Conant
- 1908 - Robert William Paine was a noted architect
- 1908 - Kenneth Mellanby was a noted entomologist
- 1911 - Bernard Katz was a noted biophysicist
- 1913 - Paul Erdos was a noted mathematician
- 1916 - American chemist, Christian B. Anfinsen researched cell physiology and won the Nobel Prize in 1972
- 1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to become a Supreme Court Justice (U.S.) in 1981
- 1941 - English scientist, Richard Dawkins
March 27
- 1780 - German inventor & mathematician, August L Crelle built the first Prussian Railway
- 1844 - American arctic explorer, Alophus Washington Greely
- 1845 - Physicist, Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen discovered x-rays and won the Nobel Prize in 1901
- 1847 - German chemist, Otto Wallach won the Nobel Prize in 1910
- 1863 - Henry Royce invented the Rolls-Royce
- 1905 - Hungarian mathematician, Laszlo Kalmar discovered mathematical logic, and was the founder of theoretical computer science in Hungary
- 1922 - Margaret Stacey, was a noted sociologist
March 28
- 1942 - American philosopher, Daniel Dennett researched cognitive science and evolutionary biology
March 29
- 1883 - American chemist, Van Slyke invented micromanometric analysis
March 30
- 1842 - Dr. Crawford Long was the first physician to use ether as anesthetic
- 1865 - German physicist, Heinrich Rubens
- 1876 - Clifford Whittingham Beers was a mental hygiene pioneer
- 1892 - Polish mathematician, Stefan Banach
- 1894 - Russian airplane builder, Sergei Ilyushin
- 1912 - Andrew Rodger Waterson was a noted naturalist
March 31
- 1811 - German chemist, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen invented the bunsen burner
- 1854 - Dugald Clerk invented a 2-stroke motorcycle engine
- 1878 - Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight boxing champ (1908 - 1915) who invented a wrench
- 1950 - Pathologist, Alison McCartney is a noted breast cancer campaigner
