Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt.

7 December 1905

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Alan Faneca • Bernard C. Parks • Columba • Dan Bilzerian • Eckhard Märzke • Ellen Burstyn • Emily Browning • Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley • James Rivière • Leopold Kronecker • Mary Ellen Rudin • Max Zaslofsky • Patrick Fabian • Susan Collins

Born in the same month (December 1905): Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter) • Anthony Powell • Dalton Trumbo • Daniil Kharms • Erico Verissimo • Giovanni Lurani • Helen Dodson Prince • Howard Hughes • Irving Kahn • Kenneth Rexroth • Mohammad Hidayatullah • Pierre Brasseur • Pierre Levegh • Robert Henriques • Ruben Nirvi • Simo Häyhä