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): Alois Brunner • CeeDee Lamb • Helen Joseph • Hirsch Jacobs • Hywel Bennett • Jack Le Goff • Jenni Asserholt • John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford • Juan van der Hamen • Manolis Angelopoulos • Manuel Ortega (singer) • Margaret Ayer Barnes • Patricia Arquette • Richard Neutra • Robin Wright • Sara Northrup Hollister • Seymour Hersh • Tom Petranoff • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford • Tracy Grammer • Yemane Tsegay
Born in the same month (April 1939): Bill Hagerty (journalist) • Brett Whiteley • François de Roubaix • Gro Harlem Brundtland • John Foley (British Army officer)