Alexander Shulgin

Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA, commonly known as "ecstasy", via academic journals and papers to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use and for the discovery, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.

17 June 1925

Born on the same birth day (17 June): Arnold S. Relman • Bobby Bell • Cem Hakko • Dave Concepción • Drogo of Metz • Estelle Morris • Ferdinand Freiligrath • George Akerlof • Gregg Rolie • Harry Patch • Helen Glover • Henrik Wergeland • John Baldessari • John Robert Gregg • Joshua Leonard • Ken Loach • Kyle Boller • Mildred Fox • Stefan Hodgetts • Tjaša Jezernik • Tory Burch

Born in the same month (June 1925): Art Modell • Attilâ İlhan • Cara Williams • Claire Lee Chennault • Dilia Díaz Cisneros • Doris Hart • Ernestina Herrera de Noble • Francis S. Currey • Frank Chee Willeto • Giorgio Napolitano • Giovanni Spadolini • Herman Sarkowsky • Jean Frydman • Jean d'Ormesson • Larisa Avdeyeva • Maureen Stapleton • Maxine Kumin • Ogden Reid • Otto Muehl • Pavel Belyayev • Robert Venturi • Stanley Moss • Tony Curtis • Wayne Terwilliger • Wolfgang Unzicker