Mary Frances Winston Newson
Mary Frances Winston Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of Göttingen in Germany. She was also the first person to translate Hilbert's problems into English.
7 August 1869
Born on the same birth day (7 August): Alberto Salazar • Christian Chávez • Francesca Gregorini • Garrison Keillor • István Bibó • John Birmingham • Jonathan Bernier • Manitas de Plata • Nicholas Ray • Peter Niven • Rahsaan Roland Kirk • Robert Dudley (explorer) • Shane Lechler • Stan Freberg • Sándor Simó • Tooba Siddiqui • Wayne Knight • Édgar Rentería
Born in the same month (August 1869): Carl Rungius • Laurence Binyon • Tom Kiely • William Henry Ogilvie