Albert Champion (cyclist)

Albert Champion was a French track bicycle racer and later an industrialist who won the 1899 Paris–Roubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the Albert Champion Company in Boston to make porcelain spark plugs with his name on them. Three years later founded the Champion Ignition Company in Flint, Michigan. In 1922 he changed the name to AC Spark Plug Company, after his initials, to settle out of court with his original partners in the Albert Champion Company. The company is now known as ACDelco and is owned by General Motors.

5 April 1878

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1878): Georg Misch • Paul Weinstein (athlete)

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Alfred Blalock • Brock Radunske • Carlos Guastavino • Charlotte de Turckheim • Diego Chará • Dominik Mysterio • Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken • Gilles Proulx • Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt • Jehan Buhan • Jules Ferry • Lukas Ridgeston • Moise Safra • Nedim Gürsel • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu • Sercan Yıldırım • Shammond Williams • Shikha Uberoi • Simone Inzaghi • Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet • Zack Smith

Born in the same month (April 1878): C. Ganesha Iyer • Demetrios Petrokokkinos • Emil Fuchs (baseball) • Erich Mühsam • Georg Misch • Jean Crotti • Lionel Barrymore • Paul Weinstein (athlete) • Percy Lane Oliver • R. E. Foster • Rafael Guízar y Valencia • Robert Walser • Stylianos Lykoudis • Walter Conrad Arensberg • William Merz • Władysław Witwicki