Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown, more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".

30 August 1716

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Alexander H. Rice • Carlo Checchinato • Gary Gordon • Guy A. Lepage • Huey Long • Isaac Levitan • John Mauchly • Tug McGraw