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