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): Brian Moore (novelist) • Florian Mohr • James Lick • James W. Gerard • Kel Mitchell • Louis Antoine de Saint-Just • Simon McBurney • Stuart Murdoch (musician)

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