John Arbuthnott (microbiologist)
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott, PPRSE, FRCPSG, FMedSci, FRCPath was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014. John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist and academic (d. 2023)
8 April 1939
Born on the same birth date (8 April 1939): Manolis Angelopoulos • Martin J. Schreiber • Trina Schart Hyman
Born on the same birth day (8 April): Allen Butler Talcott • Allu Arjun • Anna Korakaki • Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone • David Rittenhouse • Detlef Bruckhoff • Edward Mulhare • Franco Corelli • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney • James Lockhart (historian) • John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford • Kenny Benjamin • Manuel Ortega (singer) • Nnedi Okorafor • Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco • Roquan Smith • William Joseph Chaminade
Born in the same month (April 1939): Claudio Magris • Clay Shaw (politician) • Desiré Ecaré • Francis Ford Coppola • Helen Prejean • Margo Smith • Mel Carter • Tarcisio Burgnich • Thomas J. Moyer • Trina Schart Hyman