Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

8 December 1765

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Anita Weyermann • Arthur Leslie • Bhavini Purohit • Brant Alyea • Corey Taylor • Darren Sheridan • Ernst Moro • Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor • Frederik Buch • John Rubinstein • Lim Guan Eng • Maria Josepha of Austria • Mark Bugden • Robert Sternberg • Serena Ryder • Simon Finnigan • Sun Li-jen • Tuomas Bryggari • Warren Cuccurullo

Born in the same month (December 1765): Johann Friedrich Pfaff