Famous people born in 1887 - page 2

Henry Moseley was a renowned English physicist who developed the Moseley’s Law in the field of x-ray spectroscopy

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was a British Army officer who served as an Allied commander in World War II

Barnes Wallis was the English inventor who invented the bouncing bomb that was used in the Dambusters raid of May 1943

Aldo Leopold was a renowned American ecologist, environmentalist and scientist

Erwin Schrodinger was a Nobel Prize winning physicist who formulated the Schrodinger equation in quantum physics

Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese political leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China for almost five decades

Sigmund Romberg was an Austro-Hungarian composer best known for his musicals and operettas

Nadia Boulanger was a French musician counted among the best teachers of musical composition of the 20th century

Jamini Roy was a path-breaking artist who started the trend of coming up with painting rich in folk art tradition

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, and continued fractions