Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.

7 August 1903

Born on the same birth day (7 August): Alberto Salazar • Alexandre Aja • Auguste Michel-Lévy • Cirroc Lofton • Danny Graves • David Cairns (politician) • Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos • Ian Dench • James Randi • Jonathan Bernier • Mitchell te Vrede • Nicholas Ray • Russell Baze • Vladimir Sorokin • Walter Swinburn

Born in the same month (August 1903): Arthur Godfrey • Bhagwati Charan Verma • Bruno Bettelheim • Caroline Pafford Miller • Habib Bourguiba • James Gould Cozzens • Jerry Iger • Karl Hanke • Kostas Giannidis • Lucienne Boyer • Paul Horgan • Virginia Foster Durr • Vladimir Jankélévitch • Ward Moore