Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.

15 April 1907

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Abigail Mejia • Alfred S. Bloomingdale • Artur Alliksaar • Catherine I of Russia • Daiki Arioka • David Omand • Denis Shapovalov • Evelyn Ashford • Felix Pipes • Harold Washington • Hugh Thompson Jr. • Joice Mujuru • Karel Kroupa • Kevin Stevens • Marsha Ivins • Nikolai Gumilev • Robert W. Gore • Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir • Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Born in the same month (April 1907): Augoustinos Kantiotes • August Eigruber • Felix de Weldon • François Duvalier • Fred Zinnemann • Gabriel Figueroa • Harald Andersson • Harold Stassen • Ilias Tsirimokos • Joseph-Armand Bombardier • Lee Miller • Luke Appling • Miklós Rózsa • Miran Bakhsh • Robert Askin • Sanya Dharmasakti • Shivakumara Swami • Zawgyi (writer)