François Coty

François Coty was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He is considered the founding father of the modern perfume industry.

3 May 1874

Born on the same birth date (3 May 1874): Vagn Walfrid Ekman

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