Pierre Méchain
Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
16 August 1744
Born on the same birth day (16 August): Anne L'Huillier • Bill Spooner • David Behrman • Fess Parker • Flor Silvestre • Godfrey Oboabona • Ismaïl Aissati • James Cameron • Jules Laforgue • Mary Gilmore • Matteo Anesi • Moussa Sissoko • Roque Ruaño • Ryan Kerrigan • Stan Lazaridis • Zachary Taylor
Born in the same month (August 1744): Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck • Johann Gottfried Herder