Famous Geniuses Born in October
71
Brilliant Minds Born in October
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
October ushers in autumn, as the world transforms. History's greatest transformers — in science, art, philosophy, and politics — are well represented among October births.
Top Geniuses Born in October
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in October, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Covalent bondLewis dot structuresValence bond theoryElectronic theory of acids and basesChemical thermodynamicsFugacityH
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good & Evil
Adragon Eastwood De Mello
Graduating from college at the age of 11.
Denis Diderot
La Religieuse
Niels Bohr
Bohr magneton
Bohr model
Bohr radius
Bohr–Einstein debates
Bohr–Kramers–Slater theory
Bohr–Van
Bohr model
Bohr radius
Bohr–Einstein debates
Bohr–Kramers–Slater theory
Bohr–Van
Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
Handbook of a Christian Knight
On Civility in Children
Julius Excluded
The Educat
Handbook of a Christian Knight
On Civility in Children
Julius Excluded
The Educat
Jacques Auguste de Thou
History of his own Times
Thomas Browne
Religio Medici, Urne-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Christian Morals
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Being the first acknowledged microbiologist.
Albrecht von Haller
Being the father of modern physiology
John Adams
Being the 2nd president of the United States
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Conversation poems, Biographia Literaria
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Pablo Picasso
Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
Virgil
Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
William Penn
Georg Ernst Stahl
Phlogiston theory
Fermentation
Fermentation
Benjamin Constant
Principes de Politique Applicables a Tous les Gouvernements (1810)Adolphe (1816)De la religion considérée dans sa source
John Dewey
Reforming the American educational system.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Chandrasekhar limit
Chandrasekhar number
Chandrasekhar friction
Chandrasekhar–Kendall function
Chand
Chandrasekhar number
Chandrasekhar friction
Chandrasekhar–Kendall function
Chand
Manahel Thabet
the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. In 2012 she came up with a revolutionary 3
Christopher Wren
Designer of 54 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many notable secular buildings in London after
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Henri de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simonianism
François Guizot
French historian, orator, and statesman.
Évariste Galois
Work on the theory of equations and Abelian integrals
Giuseppe Verdi
1. Aida 2. Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco 3. La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto 4. La Traviata 5. Trovatore
Cornelius Jansen
Jansenism
Samuel Clarke
English philosopher and Anglican clergyman; was a Boyle anti-atheism lecturer for two years.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Graziella (1852)
Browse October by Date
Click any date below to see every genius born on that specific day, with full profiles and history.
Oct 1
Yang Chen-Ning
+1 genius
Oct 2
Mahatma Gandhi
+2 geniuses
Oct 4
François Guizot
+1 genius
Oct 5
Adragon Eastwood De Mello
+4 geniuses
Oct 6
Ernest Walton
+1 genius
Oct 7
Niels Bohr
+2 geniuses
Oct 8
Jacques Auguste de Thou
+2 geniuses
Oct 9
Camille Saint-Saëns
+2 geniuses
Oct 10
Giuseppe Verdi
+5 geniuses
Oct 11
Samuel Clarke
+3 geniuses
Oct 12
William Armstrong Fairburn
+1 genius
Oct 13
Rudolf Virchow
+1 genius
Oct 14
William Penn
+4 geniuses
Oct 15
Friedrich Nietzsche
+3 geniuses
Oct 16
Albrecht von Haller
+1 genius
Oct 17
Henri de Saint-Simon
+2 geniuses
Oct 19
Thomas Browne
+3 geniuses
Oct 20
John Dewey
+3 geniuses
Oct 21
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+6 geniuses
Oct 22
Georg Ernst Stahl
+2 geniuses
Oct 24
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
+1 genius
Oct 25
Gilbert N. Lewis
+7 geniuses
Oct 26
Georges Danton
+2 geniuses
Oct 27
Theodore Roosevelt
+3 geniuses
Oct 28
Erasmus
+4 geniuses
Oct 30
John Adams
+4 geniuses
Oct 31
Christopher Columbus
+1 genius
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Oct 1 — Yang Chen-Ning (1)
Oct 2 — Mahatma Gandhi, William Ramsay (2)
Oct 4 — François Guizot (1)
Oct 5 — Adragon Eastwood De Mello, Denis Diderot, Bill James... (4)
Oct 6 — Ernest Walton (1)
Oct 7 — Niels Bohr, Yo Yo Ma (2)
Oct 8 — Jacques Auguste de Thou, Bogdan-Daniel Deac (2)
Oct 9 — Camille Saint-Saëns, Wesley So (2)
Oct 10 — Giuseppe Verdi, Hugh Miller, Henry Cavendish... (5)
Oct 11 — Samuel Clarke, Peter Thiel, Ruslan Ponomariov (3)
Oct 12 — William Armstrong Fairburn (1)
Oct 13 — Rudolf Virchow (1)
Oct 14 — William Penn, Manahel Thabet, Hannah Arendt... (4)
Oct 15 — Friedrich Nietzsche, Virgil, Adora Svitak (3)
Oct 16 — Albrecht von Haller (1)
Oct 17 — Henri de Saint-Simon, John Wilkes (2)
Oct 19 — Thomas Browne, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Marguerite Perey (3)
Oct 20 — John Dewey, James Chadwick, R. J. Hollingdale (3)
Oct 21 — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred Nobel... (6)
Oct 22 — Georg Ernst Stahl, Franz Liszt (2)
Oct 24 — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1)
Oct 25 — Gilbert N. Lewis, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Pablo Picasso... (7)
Oct 26 — Georges Danton, Kelvin Doe (2)
Oct 27 — Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Plath, Niccolò Paganini (3)
Oct 28 — Erasmus, Cornelius Jansen, Bill Gates... (4)
Oct 30 — John Adams, Christopher Wren, Richard Brinsley Sheridan... (4)
Oct 31 — Christopher Columbus (1)
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