John von Neumann

John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He was a pioneer in building the mathematical framework of quantum physics, in the development of functional analysis, and in game theory, introducing or codifying concepts including cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA.

28 December 1903

Born on the same birth date (28 December 1903): Earl Hines

Born on the same birth day (28 December): Barbara Judge • Beau Garrett • Bill Hall (utility player) • Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher) • Brenda Schultz-McCarthy • Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis • Christoph Franz von Buseck • Duane Solomon • Hansjörg Kunze • James Jett • John Henson (basketball) • Martin Kaymer • Pops Staples • Thomas Dekker (actor) • Wil van Beveren

Born in the same month (December 1903): Antiochos Evangelatos • Ava Helen Pauling • C. F. Powell • Carlos Montoya • Danilo Blanuša • Earl Hines • Ella Baker • Erskine Caldwell • George Davis Snell • Haldan Keffer Hartline • Harold Whitlock • Joseph Cornell • Nikolai Voznesensky • Ray Noble • Tony Lazzeri • Una Merkel • Walter Rangeley • William Heynes