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): Bernard Stiegler • Deng Linlin • Duke Jordan • Gabe Davis • George Baker (British actor) • Gérard Mestrallet • Humayun Akhtar Khan • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin • John Abizaid • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester • José Rodrigues dos Santos • Laurette Taylor • Melville Shavelson • Mitchell Robinson • Samuel Alito

Born in the same month (April 1898): Agnes Ayres • Chiungtze C. Tsen • Constance Talmadge • Curly Lambeau • David Jack • E. J. Bowen • George Jessel (actor) • Harindranath Chattopadhyay • Harry Edward • Henry Luce • Jeanne Hébuterne • John Grierson • Lily Pons • Lucius D. Clay • Ludwig Bemelmans • Maurice Wilson • Patrick Hennessy (industrialist) • Paul Robeson • Solange d'Ayen • Vicente Aleixandre