Francesco Redi

Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.

18 February 1626

Born on the same birth day (18 February): Audre Lorde • Baha al-Din al-Amili • Cybill Shepherd • February 18 • Harry Brearley • Helen Gurley Brown • Henri Laurens • Jack Palance • Johann Christian Kittel • Mary I of England • Nathan Aké • Paul Zipser • Premier of Victoria • Radek Černý • Sonja Vasić • Tanguy Coulibaly

Born in the same month (February 1626): Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné