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): Dallin Watene-Zelezniak • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. • Georgia Gibbs • Jean Pierre Lefebvre • Jim Courier • Lil Pump • Maria McKee • Steve Gorman • William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Brian Edmund Baker • Catherine Doherty • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gerty Cori • Gostha Pal • Ivan Mihailov • Jack Pickford • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween • Raymond Massey • Tõnis Kint