Alfred Ploetz

Alfred Ploetz was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting the concept in Germany.

22 August 1860

Born on the same birth date (22 August 1860): Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Born on the same birth day (22 August): Agatha Marie of Hanau • Archibald Willard • Chiranjeevi • Claude Debussy • Dua Lipa • Ernest H. Volwiler • Ezra Butler Eddy • Holger Gehrke • James Newland • Jerry Iger • Marc Bohan • Paul Comtois • Rudolf von Jhering • Stevie Ray • Ulrich Wegener

Born in the same month (August 1860): Annie Oakley • Bazil Assan • Ernest Thompson Seton • Florence Harding • Klara Hitler • Raymond Poincaré • William Kennedy Dickson