Raymond Dart

Raymond Arthur Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.

4 February 1893

Born on the same birth day (4 February): Clyde Tombaugh • David Brenner • Dietrich Bonhoeffer • Francesco II Sforza • Natalie Imbruglia • Stanley Karnow

Born in the same month (February 1893): Andrés Segovia • Ba Maw • Bill Tilden • Cedric Hardwicke • Cornelius Lanczos • Elizabeth Holloway Marston • Gaston Julia • Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas • Katharine Cornell • Nicanor Abelardo • Wallace Fard Muhammad