Joseph Paxton

Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.

3 August 1803

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Balwinder Sandhu • Isaiah Washington • John C. McGinley • Kwon Alexander • Manaia Cherrington • Nikos Dabizas • Stefan Wyszyński

Born in the same month (August 1803): Edward Beecher • Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias • Nathan Clifford • Vladimir Odoyevsky