Beno Gutenberg

Beno Gutenberg was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.

4 June 1889

Born on the same birth day (4 June): Angelina Jolie • Arturo Rawson • Benjamin Huntsman • Elizabeth Jolley • François Beauchemin • James Pennethorne • Jennifer Carroll (swimmer) • Jim Lachey • John Hockenberry • Juan Iturbe • Junius Ho • Louis Reichardt • Mary Testa • Mikey Whipwreck • Raymond Dumais • Richie Hawtin • Robert Merrill • Sean Fitzpatrick • Shoji Meguro • Tofilau Eti Alesana

Born in the same month (June 1889): Anna Akhmatova • Archibald Frazer-Nash • Charles Kay Ogden • Hugo Wieslander • John S. Paraskevopoulos • Joseph Cohen (solicitor) • Ralph Craig • Verena Holmes • Willie Macfarlane