Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.

8 November 1878

Born on the same birth day (8 November): Bucky Harris • Christiaan Barnard • Clinton Jones (priest) • Dale Gardner • Henrik Gabriel Porthan • Henry II, Duke of Lorraine • Hermann Rorschach • Laura Jane Grace • Lucia Vadlejch • Mika Kallio • Mohd Faiz Subri • Roy Wood • Sarah Fielding • Stéphane Audran • Thanasis Pafilis • Wayne LaPierre

Born in the same month (November 1878): Ahn Chang Ho • Carlos Saavedra Lamas • Charles Dvorak • Cy Morgan • Grace Abbott • Gustav Radbruch • Jatindramohan Bagchi • Julie Manet • Konrad Mägi • Leopold Staff • Major Taylor • Ōkido Moriemon