Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.

29 April 1908

Born on the same birth day (29 April): Catherine Lara • Charles Nodier • Henri Poincaré • James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde • Jim Ryun • Katherine Langford • Malcolm Sargent • Megan Boone • Misaki Doi • Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech • Sinja Kraus

Born in the same month (April 1908): Eve Arden • Harlow Rothert • Ida Pollock • Jack Fingleton • Jane Bolin • Joseph Krumgold • Marceline Day • Myron Waldman • Paula Nenette Pepin • Percy Faith • Peter Zaremba (athlete) • Ray Ventura • Robert Lee Scott Jr.