Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert on marine birds, and wrote several major books on them. He described a species of petrel which is now known as Murphy's petrel. Mount Murphy in Antarctica and Murphy Wall in South Georgia are named after him.

29 April 1887

Born on the same birth day (29 April): April Telek • Bill Drummond • Edith Brown Clement • Edward Blishen • Irvin Kershner • James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde • Parren Mitchell • Toots Thielemans

Born in the same month (April 1887): Bernardo Houssay • Denys Finch Hatton • Felix Pipes • Harald Bohr • Harold Lockwood • Jamini Roy • Joe McCarthy (baseball manager) • Kojo Tovalou Houénou • Konrad Tom • Nishizō Tsukahara • Warren Wood • William Cowhig • William Forgan Smith • Ōtori Tanigorō