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): Carl Gardner • Hanne Darboven • Harry Payne Whitney • Henry H. Barschall • Infanta Sofía of Spain • Jay Cutler • Jo O'Meara • Johnny Miller • Mallory Swanson • Thomas Adolphus Trollope • Zubin Mehta • Zuzana Hejdová
Born in the same month (April 1908): Eden ahbez • Ellis Marsalis Sr. • Eve Arden • Herbert von Karajan • Hugo Fregonese • Ida Pollock • Inga Gentzel • Jagjivan Ram • Lita Grey • Marcel-Marie Desmarais • Marceline Day • Myron Waldman • Paula Nenette Pepin • Ray Ventura • Robert Lee Scott Jr.