Famous Geniuses Born in August
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Brilliant Minds Born in August
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
August, named for Emperor Augustus Caesar, carries the heat of high summer. It brought forth some of history's most commanding and brilliant figures.
Top Geniuses Born in August
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in August, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Hermann von Helmholtz
His mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on t
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger's cat
Paul Dirac
Sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theo
Philip Emeagwali
being the "Bill Gates of Africa"
Marilyn vos Savant
Penning the 'Ask Marilyn' column in Parade magazine and solving the 'Monty Hall Problem' in the process.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), and “The Mask of Anarchy” (1819)
Ettore Majorana
The Italian theoretical physicist was an expert in electrically neutral subatomic particles created in nuclear reactions
Paolo Sarpi
John Locke
Being known as the "Father of Liberalism"
Denis Papin
Steam digester
François Fénelon
The Adventures of Telemachus
Antoine Lavoisier
Combustion
Identified oxygen
Identified hydrogen
Stoichiometry
Identified oxygen
Identified hydrogen
Stoichiometry
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military genius
First emperor of france
conqueror
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome, Father of modern scholarly historiography.
Hans Christian Ørsted
Discovery of electromagnetism and Aluminium
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Atomic weights and Chemical notation
Louis de Broglie
Wave nature of electrons
De Broglie–Bohm theoryde
Broglie wavelength
De Broglie–Bohm theoryde
Broglie wavelength
Jorge Luis Borges
A Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), El Aleph (1949), Labyrinths (1962) and The Book of Sand (1975)
Nicolas Malebranche
His doctrines of vision in God, occasionalism and ontologism.
Robert Taylor
Mary Shelley
Frederick Sanger
Determining the amino acid sequence of insulin
Sanger sequencing
Sanger Centre
Sanger sequencing
Sanger Centre
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
Being the tutor of Louis XIV
Georges Cuvier
Establishing the fields of stratigraphy and comparative anatomy, and the principle of faunal succession in the fossil re
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit
Robert Southey
English romantic poet
John Tyndall
Atmosphere, physics education, Tyndall effect, diamagnetism, infrared radiation, Tyndallization
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Jean de La Bruyère
French philosopher, moralist, and satirist,
Browse August by Date
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Aug 1
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
+3 geniuses
Aug 2
John Tyndall
+2 geniuses
Aug 4
Percy Bysshe Shelley
+3 geniuses
Aug 5
Ettore Majorana
+4 geniuses
Aug 6
François Fénelon
+5 geniuses
Aug 7
Ralph Bunche
+1 genius
Aug 8
Paul Dirac
+2 geniuses
Aug 9
Marvin Minsky
+2 geniuses
Aug 10
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
+2 geniuses
Aug 11
Marilyn vos Savant
+3 geniuses
Aug 12
Erwin Schrödinger
+2 geniuses
Aug 13
Frederick Sanger
+2 geniuses
Aug 14
Paolo Sarpi
+2 geniuses
Aug 15
Napoleon Bonaparte
+3 geniuses
Aug 16
Jean de La Bruyère
+1 genius
Aug 18
Robert Taylor
+1 genius
Aug 19
Wright brothers
+4 geniuses
Aug 20
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
+2 geniuses
Aug 21
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
+2 geniuses
Aug 22
Denis Papin
+3 geniuses
Aug 23
Philip Emeagwali
+2 geniuses
Aug 24
Jorge Luis Borges
+3 geniuses
Aug 25
Johann Gottfried Herder
+2 geniuses
Aug 26
Antoine Lavoisier
+3 geniuses
Aug 27
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
+2 geniuses
Aug 28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+1 genius
Aug 29
John Locke
+1 genius
Aug 30
Mary Shelley
+5 geniuses
Aug 31
Hermann von Helmholtz
+2 geniuses
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Aug 1 — François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, George de Hevesy (3)
Aug 2 — John Tyndall, Ruth Lawrence (2)
Aug 4 — Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Harington (writer), Barack Obama (3)
Aug 5 — Ettore Majorana, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Niels Henrik Abel... (4)
Aug 6 — François Fénelon, Nicolas Malebranche, Daniel O'Connell... (5)
Aug 7 — Ralph Bunche (1)
Aug 8 — Paul Dirac, Ernest Lawrence (2)
Aug 9 — Marvin Minsky, Amedeo Avogadro (2)
Aug 10 — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2)
Aug 11 — Marilyn vos Savant, Robert G. Ingersoll, Erwin Chargaff (3)
Aug 12 — Erwin Schrödinger, Robert Southey (2)
Aug 13 — Frederick Sanger, William Wotton (2)
Aug 14 — Paolo Sarpi, Hans Christian Ørsted (2)
Aug 15 — Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis de Broglie, Walter Scott (3)
Aug 16 — Jean de La Bruyère (1)
Aug 18 — Robert Taylor (1)
Aug 19 — Wright brothers, John Dryden, Pierre-Jean de Béranger... (4)
Aug 20 — Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Roger Wolcott Sperry (2)
Aug 21 — Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Lili Boulanger (2)
Aug 22 — Denis Papin, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., GZA (3)
Aug 23 — Philip Emeagwali, Georges Cuvier (2)
Aug 24 — Jorge Luis Borges, William Wilberforce, Stephen Fry (3)
Aug 25 — Johann Gottfried Herder, Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen (2)
Aug 26 — Antoine Lavoisier, Robert Walpole, Edward Witten (3)
Aug 27 — Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2)
Aug 28 — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
Aug 29 — John Locke (1)
Aug 30 — Mary Shelley, Warren Buffett, Ernest Rutherford... (5)
Aug 31 — Hermann von Helmholtz, Maria Montessori (2)
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