Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

4 April 1688

Born on the same birth day (4 April): Aki Kaurismäki • Björn Wirdheim • Brian Hewson • Dorothea Dix • Eric Steinbach • Geoff Braybrooke • Georgios Amanatidis • Jules Léger • Maya Angelou • Monty Norman • Remy de Gourmont • Tris Speaker • Vojtěch I of Pernštejn

Born in the same month (April 1688): Johann Friedrich Fasch