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): Belinda Carlisle • Colin James • Dave "Snaker" Ray • Eric Boulton • Helen McCrory • Jack Conklin • John Humphrys • Jüri Luik • Mark Salling • Maru Teferi • Michael John Wise • Patrick Manning • Robin Cousins • Ron Henry • Roy Tattersall • Taissa Farmiga • Tyrus Thomas • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt • William IX, Count of Poitiers

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