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): Aaron Nola • Bob Champion • Christopher Cockerell • Dennis Weaver • George III • George Reid (Scottish politician) • James Pennethorne • Jennifer Carroll (swimmer) • John Hockenberry • Judith Malina • Jürgen Sparwasser • Lorenzo Insigne • Michael Greyeyes • Mike Lee • Nenad Zimonjić • Patience Strong • Raymond Dumais • Ruth Westheimer • Terry Kennedy (baseball) • Tom Jaine • Walter Hadlee • Yevgeny Mravinsky

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