Famous Geniuses Born in April
81
Brilliant Minds Born in April
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
April, from the Latin 'aperire' (to open), marks the blooming of spring. It brought forth some of history's most open and expansive minds.
Top Geniuses Born in April
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in April, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
William James Sidis
The Animate And The Inanimate
Leonardo Da Vinci
Painting, drawing, sculpting, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lyr
Christiaan Huygens
Explanation of Saturn's rings
Centrifugal force
Collision formulae
Gambler's ruin
Pendulum clock
Centrifugal force
Collision formulae
Gambler's ruin
Pendulum clock
Leonhard Euler
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gaussian elimination, also known as "row reduction" or "Gaussian method"
Gauss–Jordan elimination
Gauss–Seidel
Gauss–Jordan elimination
Gauss–Seidel
Henri Poincaré
Poincaré conjecture
Max Planck
On the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory (1879)
Garry Kasparov
Being the top chess player from 1984 until 2005
Thomas Hobbes
The Leviathan
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature
Percy Williams Bridgman
High-pressure physics
Operationalism
Operational definition
Operationalism
Operational definition
Marcus Aurelius
Charlemagne
Uniting the majority of western and central Europe.
William Harvey
Discovering how the human bloodflow works
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Philosophie anatomique
James Anthony Froude
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Claude Shannon
Information theory
Averroes - Ibn Rushd
Andalusian polymath, Aristotle commentator, and middle ages genius; his work on atheism was influential to those includi
Germaine de Staël
Delphine (1802)
Corinne (1807)
De l'Allemagne (1813)
Corinne (1807)
De l'Allemagne (1813)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Wolfgang Pauli
Pauli exclusion principle
Washington Irving
John Burroughs
Being an active in the U.S. conservation movement.
Émile Durkheim
Being the architect of modern social science
Edmund Husserl
"Phenomenology, epoché (also bracketing, transcendental reduction, or phenomenological reduction), eidetic reduction, na
Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
Kurt Gödel
Gödel numbering
Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great and Hitch-22: A Memoir
Browse April by Date
Click any date below to see every genius born on that specific day, with full profiles and history.
Apr 1
William James Sidis
+5 geniuses
Apr 2
Charlemagne
+4 geniuses
Apr 3
Washington Irving
+6 geniuses
Apr 5
Thomas Hobbes
+2 geniuses
Apr 6
Nicolas Chamfort
+1 genius
Apr 7
William Wordsworth
+3 geniuses
Apr 8
Edmund Husserl
+1 genius
Apr 9
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
+2 geniuses
Apr 10
Hugo Grotius
+1 genius
Apr 11
George Canning
+2 geniuses
Apr 12
Benoît de Maillet
+1 genius
Apr 13
Garry Kasparov
+3 geniuses
Apr 14
Christiaan Huygens
+2 geniuses
Apr 15
Leonardo Da Vinci
+5 geniuses
Apr 16
John Franklin
+2 geniuses
Apr 18
Clarence Darrow
+4 geniuses
Apr 19
Gustav Fechner
+2 geniuses
Apr 20
Philippe Pinel
+2 geniuses
Apr 21
Percy Williams Bridgman
+5 geniuses
Apr 22
Immanuel Kant
+5 geniuses
Apr 23
Max Planck
+4 geniuses
Apr 24
Stephen Wiltshire
+1 genius
Apr 25
Wolfgang Pauli
+4 geniuses
Apr 26
William Shakespeare
+3 geniuses
Apr 27
Mary Wollstonecraft
+3 geniuses
Apr 28
Kurt Gödel
+2 geniuses
Apr 29
Henri Poincaré
+4 geniuses
Apr 30
Carl Friedrich Gauss
+2 geniuses
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Apr 1 — William James Sidis, William Harvey, Sergei Rachmaninoff... (5)
Apr 2 — Charlemagne, Giacomo Casanova, Léon Gambetta... (4)
Apr 3 — Washington Irving, John Burroughs, Vincenzo Galilei... (6)
Apr 5 — Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Lister (2)
Apr 6 — Nicolas Chamfort (1)
Apr 7 — William Wordsworth, William Ellery Channing, Jackie Chan (3)
Apr 8 — Edmund Husserl (1)
Apr 9 — Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Awonder Liang (2)
Apr 10 — Hugo Grotius (1)
Apr 11 — George Canning, Andrew Wiles (2)
Apr 12 — Benoît de Maillet (1)
Apr 13 — Garry Kasparov, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson (3)
Apr 14 — Christiaan Huygens, Averroes - Ibn Rushd (2)
Apr 15 — Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonhard Euler, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire... (5)
Apr 16 — John Franklin, Charlie Spencer Chaplin (2)
Apr 18 — Clarence Darrow, Robert Christgau, Conan O'Brien... (4)
Apr 19 — Gustav Fechner, Glenn T. Seaborg (2)
Apr 20 — Philippe Pinel, Joan Miró (2)
Apr 21 — Percy Williams Bridgman, Max Weber, John Law... (5)
Apr 22 — Immanuel Kant, Germaine de Staël, Henry Fielding... (5)
Apr 23 — Max Planck, James Anthony Froude, Akrit Jaswal... (4)
Apr 24 — Stephen Wiltshire (1)
Apr 25 — Wolfgang Pauli, Guglielmo Marconi, Oliver Cromwell... (4)
Apr 26 — William Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Ludwig Wittgenstein (3)
Apr 27 — Mary Wollstonecraft, Ulysses S. Grant, Sergei Prokofiev (3)
Apr 28 — Kurt Gödel, Eugene Merle Shoemaker (2)
Apr 29 — Henri Poincaré, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales, Harold Urey... (4)
Apr 30 — Carl Friedrich Gauss, Claude Shannon (2)
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