Howard Carter

Howard Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

9 May 1874

Born on the same birth day (9 May): Beth Mead • Daniel Berrigan • Ellen White (footballer) • Henry J. Kaiser • Jacob ben Moses Bachrach • Joy Harjo • Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg • Manfred Eigen • Meles Zenawi • Pedro Armendáriz • Vance D. Brand

Born in the same month (May 1874): Clemens von Pirquet • D. F. Malan • Ernest Duchesne • François Coty • G. K. Chesterton • George Sheldon (diver) • Gilbert Jessop • Paul Van Asbroeck • Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874–1878) • Romaine Brooks • Thomas Bavin • Vagn Walfrid Ekman