Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist, known as the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

4 October 1918

Born on the same birth day (4 October): A.C. Green • Barbara Kooyman • Brendan Gill • Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı • Charlie Hurley • Cristiano Lucarelli • Dana Davis • German Moreno • Guido Bentivoglio • Ken Wood (manufacturer) • Kurt Wüthrich • Lesley Glaister • Philippe Russo • Rocío Dúrcal • Shaura • Yvonne Murray

Born in the same month (October 1918): Abraham Nemeth • André Pilette • Bernard Gordon (writer) • Charles Read (RAAF officer) • Doreen Tovey • Fred Bodsworth • Halfdan Hegtun • Harry V. Jaffa • Martin Drewes • Paul Rudolph (architect) • Ralph Wilson • Robert Lochner • Russell Kirk • Tony Rolt