Leopold Gmelin

Leopold Gmelin was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which over successive editions became a standard reference work still in use.

2 August 1788

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Alexander Emelianenko • Bertha Lutz • Betsy Bloomingdale • Burgess Owens • Charli XCX • Geoffrey Dutton • Hank Cochran • Ioannis Varvitsiotis • Jacky Rosen • John Alexander Douglas McCurdy • Lamar Hunt • Lawrence Wright • Mary Hamman • Michael Weiss (figure skater) • Pierre DuMaine • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria • Ron Brierley • Sammy McIlroy • Ted Turner (guitarist) • Viktor Zhirmunsky • Vitalia Diatchenko

Born in the same month (August 1788): Adoniram Judson