Joshua Lionel Cowen

Joshua Lionel Cowen, born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains that gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.

25 August 1877

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Carlo Acton • Emil Theodor Kocher • Erich Honecker • H. Trendley Dean • Ivan Koloff • Jung Jung-suk • Nathan Deal • Petria Thomas • Rob Halford • Robert Horry • Rodney Ferguson • Saburō Sakai • Shock G • Taslima Nasrin • Thea Astley • Velimir Jovanović

Born in the same month (August 1877): Adolph M. Christianson • Albert Bartha • Charles Rolls • Ernst Wetter • George Hackenschmidt • István Medgyaszay • Laura Knight • Ralph McKittrick • Ravishankar Shukla • Roque Ruaño • Tachiyama Mineemon • Tom Thomson • Wallace H. White