Leon Kass

Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual. Kass is best known as a proponent of liberal arts education via the "Great Books," as a critic of human cloning, life extension, euthanasia and embryo research, and for his tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as "an old-fashioned humanist. A humanist is concerned broadly with all aspects of human life, not just the ethical."

12 February 1939

Born on the same birth date (12 February 1939): Ray Manzarek

Born on the same birth day (12 February): Alemayehu Atomsa • Anna Pavlova • Arsenio Hall • Brad Keselowski • Brian Robertson (guitarist) • Charles Mathiesen • David Graeber • Ehud Barak • Emil Lenz • Frederick II of Legnica • John Doyle (Tipperary hurler) • Josh Brolin • Judy Blume • Paxton Lynch • Pierre Louis Dulong • Sarah Lancaster • Scot Pollard • Walter Nash

Born in the same month (February 1939): Adolfo Azcuna • Adrienne Clarkson • Blowfly (musician) • Brian Luckhurst • Chuck Wepner • Daniel C. Tsui • Deolinda Rodrigues • Don McKinnon • Erin Pizzey • Eugene Fama • Fritjof Capra • Gerry Goffin • Herbert Kohler Jr. • Jackie Burroughs • Jair Rodrigues • Jamal Nazrul Islam • Janet Suzman • Jean Beaudin • Jose Maria Sison • Lee Shaffer • Mahala Andrews • Mary-Dell Chilton • Paul Gillmor • Peter Revson • Tommy Tune