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): Amy Macdonald • Damon Jones • Dave Tippett • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie • Jaap Rijks • James Wesolowski • Javed Qadeer • Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness • Justin Upton • Maxim Kontsevich • Mel Ferrer • Michael Zorc • Pablo Ozuna • Paul Herman Buck • Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer) • Richard Greene • Terminator X • Yuri Mitsui

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