Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.

12 August 1930

Born on the same birth date (12 August 1930): George Soros • Kanagaratnam Sriskandan

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Aga Muhlach • Buck Owens • Christy Mathewson • Eddie Barlow • Fulton Mackay • Karl Faber • Laurent Fignon • Mark Knopfler • Marvin Zeegelaar • Réjean Ducharme

Born in the same month (August 1930): Aase Foss Abrahamsen • Arthur Latham • Bernard Manning • Damita Jo DeBlanc • George Soros • Gholamreza Takhti • György Enyedi (geographer) • Harve Bennett • Jerry Tarkanian • Károly Grósz • Peter Randall (British Army soldier) • Wilfried Hilker • Wilmer Mizell • Windsor Davies