February 8
Geniuses Born on February 8
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🧠Average IQ of geniuses born on this day: 166
🌍Most represented country: United Kingdom (1)
📅Eras: 19th Century (3), Early Modern (2), Medieval (1)

Geniuses Born on February 8

6 geniuses born on February 8 — including Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Dmitri Mendeleev, and more. Explore their biographies, IQ scores, and achievements.

Francis Ysidro EdgeworthIQ 180
1845–1926 · United Kingdom
Being the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
An Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s
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Dmitri MendeleevIQ 175
1834–1907 · Russia
Formulating the periodic table of chemical elements
A genius Russian chemist and inventor best remembered for formulating the periodic table of elements.
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Emanuel SwedenborgIQ 165
1688–1772 · Sweden
Hs book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758)
A Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic best known his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell.
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William Tecumseh ShermanIQ 145
1820–1891 · United States
American general.
An American soldier, businessman, educator, and author considered to be the first modern general.
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Daniel Bernoulli
1700–1782 · Switzerland
Bernoulli's principle • Early kinetic theory of gases
A Swiss mathematician and physicist for pioneering work in probability and statistics
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Proclus
412–485 · Greece
Produced an alternative statement of Euclid’s famously problematical parallel postulate: Proclus’s version came to be kn
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers
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Which geniuses were born on February 8?

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Dmitri Mendeleev, Emanuel Swedenborg, William Tecumseh Sherman, Daniel Bernoulli... — 6 geniuses in total share this birthday.

What is the zodiac sign for February 8?

aquarius is the zodiac sign for people born on February 8.

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