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): Adolfo Nicolás • Amelia Best • Auguste Herbin • Duane Allen • Forest Ray Moulton • Harry Payne Whitney • Rafael Sabatini • Raja Ravi Varma • Richard Carlson (actor) • Sara Errani • Zubin Mehta
Born in the same month (April 1908): Abraham Maslow • Bette Davis • Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908) • Ellis Marsalis Sr. • Ethel Catherwood • Eve Arden • Frank Robert Miller • Herbert von Karajan • Jack Fingleton • Joseph Krumgold • Józef Gosławski (sculptor) • Lionel Hampton • Lita Grey • Masaru Ibuka • Myron Waldman • Oskar Schindler • Paula Nenette Pepin • Ray Ventura