Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man." Weinbaum wrote more short stories and a few novels, but died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.

4 April 1902

Born on the same birth date (4 April 1902): Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin

Born on the same birth day (4 April): Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria • Bapu Nadkarni • Bob Christie (racing driver) • Caracalla • Cherie Lunghi • Christine Lahti • Colin Coates • Dale Hawerchuk • David Goodall (botanist) • Dorothea Dix • Dr. Chud • Georgios Amanatidis • Graham Norton • Greg Garcia (producer) • James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy • Jim Fregosi • Joyce Giraud • Litsa Diamanti • Magda Aelvoet • Maurice Manificat • Mickey Owen • Nikola Ljubičić • Pierre Fresnay • Thaddeus Stevens

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Eduard Eelma • Fernando Pessa • Giuseppe Pella • Halldór Laxness • Johan Borgen • Louis Beel • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin • Marguerite Henry • Maria Maksakova Sr. • Maria Polydouri • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Philippe de Rothschild • Sylvio Mantha • Théodore Monod • Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté • Veniamin Kaverin • Waldemar Hammenhög • Werner Heyde