Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus.
7 April 1727
Born on the same birth day (7 April): Brian Haner • Gabriela Mistral • Leonid Shcherbakov • Martin Buß • Walter Camp
Born in the same month (April 1727): Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Jean-Georges Noverre • Pasquale Anfossi