Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the du Pont family, have been one of the richest and most prominent American families since the 19th century, with generations of influential businessmen, politicians and philanthropists. In 1807, du Pont was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia.

24 June 1771

Born on the same birth day (24 June): Colin Blunstone • David McTaggart • Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle • Ernesto Sabato • François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo • Gustaaf Deloor • Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre • William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

Born in the same month (June 1771): Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover • Hermann von Boyen • Joseph Diez Gergonne • Patrick Gass • Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk