William James Sidis

William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author. He wrote the book The Animate and the Inanimate, published in 1925, in which he speculated about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics.

1 April 1898

Born on the same birth day (1 April): Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans • Christian Finnegan • Emperor Go-Saga • Ferruccio Busoni • Gilberto Macena • José Rodrigues dos Santos • K. B. Hedgewar • Memos Makris • Mike Baird • Phil Niekro • Shinji Nakano • Walter Bahr

Born in the same month (April 1898): Agnes Ayres • Constance Talmadge • David Jack • George Jessel (actor) • Ludwig Bemelmans • Patrick Hennessy (industrialist) • Paul Robeson • Solange d'Ayen