September 18
Geniuses Born on September 18
6 Geniuses virgo
🧠Average IQ of geniuses born on this day: 166
📚Most common field: Chess (1 geniuses)
🌍Most represented country: France (2)
📅Eras: Early Modern (3), Modern (2), 19th Century (1)

Geniuses Born on September 18

6 geniuses born on September 18 — including Adrien Marie Legendre, Gilbert Burnet, and more. Explore their biographies, IQ scores, and achievements.

Adrien Marie LegendreIQ 175
1752–1833 · France
Legendre transformation, Legendre polynomials, Legendre transform, Elliptic functions
A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.
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Gilbert BurnetIQ 165
1643–1715 · Scotland
A Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury who was one of the few close friends in whom King William III confided.
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Samuel JohnsonIQ 165
1709–1784 · England
A Dictionary of the English Language • A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
An English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexic
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Léon FoucaultIQ 160
1819–1868 · France
Foucault pendulum • Foucault's currents • Foucault knife-edge test • Fizeau–Foucault apparatus • Gyroscope • Catadioptri
A French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation
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Nodirbek Abdusattorov
b. 2004 · UZ
Chess Prodigy
Uzbek chess player
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Steven Pinker
b. 1954 · Canada
The Language Instinct (1994) • How the Mind Works (1997) • The Blank Slate (2002) • The Better Angels of Our Nature (201
A Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which geniuses were born on September 18?

Adrien Marie Legendre, Gilbert Burnet, Samuel Johnson, Léon Foucault, Nodirbek Abdusattorov... — 6 geniuses in total share this birthday.

What is the zodiac sign for September 18?

virgo is the zodiac sign for people born on September 18.

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