Famous Geniuses Born in September
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Brilliant Minds Born in September
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
September marks the turn of seasons — harvest time across the Northern Hemisphere. Many of history's greatest harvesters of knowledge were born this month.
Top Geniuses Born in September
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in September, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
Wilhelm Ostwald
Catalysis, Coining the term 'Mole' and HSL and HSV
Enrico Fermi
Demonstrating first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction Fermi–Dirac statistics Fermi's golden rule Fermi paradox Ferm
Tommaso Campanella
Metaphysica
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Willem Jacob 's Gravesande
Developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics.
Jean Sylvain Bailly
Being a political leader of the early part of the French Revolution
Marquis de Condorcet
Girondin constitutional project and Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
Alexander von Humboldt
Biogeography, Kosmos (1845–1862), Humboldt Current, magnetic storm, Humboldtian science, Berlin Romanticism
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Playing a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
Bernhard Riemann
Riemann–von Mangoldt formula, Riemann bilinear relations, Cauchy–Riemann equations, Free Riemann gas, Pseudo-Riemannian
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrection
Ivan Pavlov
Being the founder of modern behavior therapy
Gerolamo Cardano
Cardano–Tartaglia formulaFirst systematic use of negative numbers in Europe
Elizabeth I
Queen of England (reign: 1558 to 1603); educated by renowned scholar, Roger Ascham; as a student, she studied Greek, Lat
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Supporting the Jacobite rebellion of 1715
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
Writing the lyrics for the song "Rule, Britannia!".
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Histoire Naturelle
Luigi Galvani
Bioelectricity (animal electricity)
Adrien Marie Legendre
Legendre transformation, Legendre polynomials, Legendre transform, Elliptic functions
Michael Faraday
Faraday's law of induction
Faraday effect
Faraday cage
Faraday constant
Faraday cup
Faraday's l
Faraday effect
Faraday cage
Faraday constant
Faraday cup
Faraday's l
William Stanley Jevons
Marginal utility theoryJevons paradox
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Liquid helium
Onnes-effect
Superconductivity
Virial equation of state
Onnes-effect
Superconductivity
Virial equation of state
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
MemoirsMaximes
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
Gilbert Burnet
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
William Robertson (historian)
Principal of the University of Edinburgh;Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; Historiographer Ro
Moses Mendelssohn
Haskalah
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time (1927)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Browse September by Date
Click any date below to see every genius born on that specific day, with full profiles and history.
Sep 1
William Stanley Jevons
+3 geniuses
Sep 2
Wilhelm Ostwald
+2 geniuses
Sep 3
Carl David Anderson
+2 geniuses
Sep 4
François-René de Chateaubriand
+1 genius
Sep 5
Tommaso Campanella
+4 geniuses
Sep 6
Robert M. Pirsig
+3 geniuses
Sep 7
Elizabeth I
+2 geniuses
Sep 8
Jean de La Fontaine
+3 geniuses
Sep 9
Leo Tolstoy
+4 geniuses
Sep 10
Arthur Compton
+2 geniuses
Sep 11
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
+1 genius
Sep 12
Clara Schumann
+2 geniuses
Sep 14
Alexander von Humboldt
+2 geniuses
Sep 15
Jean Sylvain Bailly
+2 geniuses
Sep 16
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
+3 geniuses
Sep 17
Marquis de Condorcet
+2 geniuses
Sep 18
Adrien Marie Legendre
+6 geniuses
Sep 19
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
+2 geniuses
Sep 21
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
+4 geniuses
Sep 22
Michael Faraday
+2 geniuses
Sep 24
Gerolamo Cardano
+4 geniuses
Sep 25
Glenn Gould
+1 genius
Sep 26
Willem Jacob 's Gravesande
+3 geniuses
Sep 27
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
+3 geniuses
Sep 29
Enrico Fermi
+5 geniuses
Sep 30
Jacques Necker
+3 geniuses
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Sep 1 — William Stanley Jevons, Zerah Colburn, Sergei Winogradsky (3)
Sep 2 — Wilhelm Ostwald, J Harlen Bretz (2)
Sep 3 — Carl David Anderson, Arjun Erigaisi (2)
Sep 4 — François-René de Chateaubriand (1)
Sep 5 — Tommaso Campanella, Christoph Martin Wieland, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni... (4)
Sep 6 — Robert M. Pirsig, Moses Mendelssohn, John Dalton (3)
Sep 7 — Elizabeth I, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (2)
Sep 8 — Jean de La Fontaine, Ludovico Ariosto, Peter Leko (3)
Sep 9 — Leo Tolstoy, Luigi Galvani, Cardinal Richelieu... (4)
Sep 10 — Arthur Compton, Stephen Jay Gould (2)
Sep 11 — James Thomson (poet, born 1700) (1)
Sep 12 — Clara Schumann, Irène Joliot-Curie (2)
Sep 14 — Alexander von Humboldt, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (2)
Sep 15 — Jean Sylvain Bailly, François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) (2)
Sep 16 — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Orestes Brownson, Lee Kuan Yew (3)
Sep 17 — Marquis de Condorcet, Bernhard Riemann (2)
Sep 18 — Adrien Marie Legendre, Gilbert Burnet, Samuel Johnson... (6)
Sep 19 — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, William Robertson (historian) (2)
Sep 21 — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Girolamo Savonarola, Charles Nicolle... (4)
Sep 22 — Michael Faraday, Kirill Shevchenko (2)
Sep 24 — Gerolamo Cardano, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albrecht von Wallenstein... (4)
Sep 25 — Glenn Gould (1)
Sep 26 — Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, Ivan Pavlov, Martin Heidegger (3)
Sep 27 — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Robert Blake (admiral), Illya Nyzhnyk (3)
Sep 29 — Enrico Fermi, Elizabeth Gaskell, Miguel de Cervantes... (5)
Sep 30 — Jacques Necker, Truman Capote, Elie Wiesel (3)
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