Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
28 August 1919
Born on the same birth day (28 August): Bismack Biyombo • Brian Thompson • Béla Guttmann • Cassadee Pope • Charles Sladen • Emlyn Hughes • Jamie Cureton • Jamie Osborne (jockey) • Janet Frame • Kristen Heinrich • Kyle Massey • Maurizio Costanzo • Priya Dutt • Sheridan Le Fanu • Vance Palmer
Born in the same month (August 1919): Benedict Kiely • Enrique Llanes • George Shearing • George Wallace • John David Wilson • Joop den Uyl • Kitty Wells • Maurice Hilleman • Ralph Houk • Wally Hickel