Siegfried Bettmann

Siegfried Bettmann was a bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer and initiator of the Triumph Motorcycle Company. In 1914 he established the Annie Bettmann Foundation to help young people start businesses. Triumph became one of the most famous motorcycle trade-names in the world. Bettmann was also Mayor of Coventry from 1913-1914. ^{Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (d. 1955)}

18 April 1863

Born on the same birth date (18 April 1863): Leopold Berchtold • Linton Hope

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Ahmed I • Al-Wathiq • Ardito Desio • Barbara Hale • Bernard Arcand • Claire Martin (writer) • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown • Eric McCormack • Esther Afua Ocloo • Eugene Houdry • Glen Hardin • Jerzy Stuhr • Marcus Schmuck • Michael D. Higgins • Mike Vickers • Otto Piene • Richard Harding Davis • Sydney Halter • Virginia O'Brien • William Debenham • William Harrison (priest)

Born in the same month (April 1863): Augustus Edward Hough Love • Constantine P. Cavafy • Hemmo Kallio • Ida Freund • Josiah Thomas (politician) • Leopold Berchtold • Linton Hope • Mary Theresa Ledóchowska • Nikolai von Meck • Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine • Raul Pompeia • William Randolph Hearst