Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador.

24 April 1743

Born on the same birth day (24 April): Anthony Trollope • Batuhan Karadeniz • Ben Davies (footballer, born 1993) • Christian Bobin • Claude Dubois • Damon Lindelof • Doug Christie (lawyer) • Eddie Hart (sprinter) • Frédéric Niemeyer • Guy Nève • Jack Blades • Jan Veselý • John Graunt • Lee Westwood • Marc-Adélard Tremblay • Mauro Pawlowski • Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed • Phil Watson • Richard Sterban • Rob Hyman • Sigrid Agren • Stephen Wiltshire • Thomas Cronan

Born in the same month (April 1743): Thomas Jefferson