Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham was a British-born American financial analyst, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). His investment philosophy stressed independent thinking, emotional detachment, and careful security analysis, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing the price of a stock from the value of its underlying business.

9 May 1894

Born on the same birth day (9 May): Adam Opel • Alan Bennett • Anne Sofie von Otter • C418 • Charles Simic • Dan Burn • Daniel Berrigan • Frederick Weld • Geraldine McEwan • Giovanni Paisiello • John Brown (abolitionist) • José Ortega y Gasset • Kevin Gameiro • Manfred Eigen • Marie-José Pérec • Meles Zenawi • Pancho Gonzales

Born in the same month (May 1894): Beatrice Lillie • Chandrashekarendra Saraswati • Dashiell Hammett • Dimitri Tiomkin • Feg Murray • Fred Allen • Friedrich Pollock • Hubertus van Mook • Josef von Sternberg • Joseph Henry Woodger • Louis-Ferdinand Céline • Martha Graham • Norma Talmadge • Walter Yust • Ásgeir Ásgeirsson