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): Dalton Grant • David Rittenhouse • Frédérick Bousquet • Gary Carter • George Fisher (cartoonist) • Grzegorz Lato • Herman van Raalte • Jürgen Moltmann • Mark Blundell • Michele Mercati • Raoul Jobin • Steve Howe
Born in the same month (April 1939): Ali MacGraw • André Ouellet • Crispian St. Peters • Darlene Hooley • Desiré Ecaré • Gro Harlem Brundtland • Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas • Hawk Taylor • Helen Prejean • Hugh Masekela • JoAnne Carner • Jorge Fons • Lee Majors • Margo Smith • Michael Learned • Robert Skidelsky • Ronnie White • Seamus Heaney