William Sealy Gosset

William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics. He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty. Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".

13 June 1876

Born on the same birth day (13 June): Alessandro Piccolomini • Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau • Irvin D. Yalom • Jacques Rougeau • Peter DeBoer • Renée Morisset • Serge Lemoyne • Svetlana Krivelyova • Søren Rasted • Thomas Young (scientist) • Uriel Jones

Born in the same month (June 1876): Alexandre Tuffèri • Alfred Kroeber • Edward Anthony Spitzka • Isaac Heinemann • Nigel Gresley • Pascual Díaz y Barreto • Willem Hendrik Keesom • William Carr (rower)