Leslie Groves

Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

17 August 1896

Born on the same birth date (17 August 1896): Oliver W. Larkin • Tõnis Kint

Born on the same birth day (17 August): Alexander Ivashkin • Brady Corbet • John Humphrys • Lene Marlin • Michael Preetz • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez • Rachel Corsie • Tõnis Kint

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Catherine Doherty • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gerty Cori • Gostha Pal • Ivan Mihailov • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Laurence McKinley Gould • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Raymond Massey • Theodor Luts • Tõnis Kint