Eugene Houdry

Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911. Houdry served as a lieutenant in a tank company in the French Army during World War One, receiving the French Legion of Honour. He helped innovate catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks, for which he received the Perkin Medal among others.

18 April 1892

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Costas Ferris • Haile Gebrselassie • Hayley Mills • Isaac Babalola Akinyele • Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić • Jeff Dunham • Jerzy Stuhr • John F. Wiley • Joseph L. Goldstein • Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg • Michael Beloff • Ski Mask the Slump God • Thomas Middleton • Waldemar Hammenhög • William Harrison (priest)

Born in the same month (April 1892): Claire Windsor • Edith Södergran • Germaine Tailleferre • Henry Darger • Howard Mumford Jones • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Mary Pickford • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp • Vernon Johns