Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/January

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.

-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

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$1$st

$1878$: Agner Krarup Erlang

$1889$: Eric Harold Neville

$1905$: Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur

$1912$: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko

$1913$: Karl Stein

$1920$: Heinz Zemanek

$1941$: Lynn Arthur Steen

$2$nd

$1729$: Johann Daniel Titius

$1897$: Valery Ivanovich Glivenko

$1915$: Maxine Patricia Mary Merrington

$1920$: Isaac Asimov

$1923$: Philip J. Davis

$1942$: John Timothy Anderson

$3$rd

$1777$: Louis Poinsot

$1917$: David John Finney

$1924$: Clive William Kilmister

$1954$: Michèle Audin

$1976$: Danica Mae McKellar

$4$th

$1948$: Alexander Bogomolny

$5$th

$1838$: Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan

$1871$: Gino Fano

$1884$: Arnaud Denjoy

$1909$: Stephen Cole Kleene

$1923$: Maks Aizikovich Akivis

$1942$: Joseph Anthony Gallian

$1947$: Hermanus Johannes Joseph te Riele

$6$th

$1920$: John Maynard Smith

$1922$: Erwin O. Kreyszig

$1937$: Underwood Dudley

$1937$: Stanley P. Gudder

$7$th

$1871$: Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel

$1907$: Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley

$1923$: Gertrude Ehrlich

$8$th

$1852$: Giovanni Frattini

$1888$: Richard Courant

$1915$: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik

$1923$: Paul Moritz Cohn

$1932$: Harry Lewis Nelson

$1942$: Stephen William Hawking

$9$th

$1866$: Ludwig August Paul Wernicke

$1873$: Hans Frederick Blichfeldt

$1930$: Jacob Theodore Schwartz

$10$th

$1875$: Issai Schur

$1899$: Szolem Mandelbrojt

$1911$: Howard Whitley Eves

$1922$: Douglas Samuel Jones

$1936$: Amnon Pazy

$1937$: James Burton Ax

$1938$: Donald Ervin Knuth

$11$th

$1826$: Giuseppe Battaglini

$1934$: Charles Antony Richard Hoare

$12$th

$1853$: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

$1907$: Edwin Arthur Maxwell

$1915$: Herbert Ellis Robbins

$13$th

$1818$: Alfred Wrigley

$1876$: Erhard Schmidt

$1902$: Karl Menger

$1931$: Elias Menachem Stein

$1940$: Alexander G. Ramm

$1978$: Nathaniel Read Silver

$14$th

$1887$: Władysław Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus

$1902$: Alfred Tarski

$15$th

$1717$: Matthew Stewart

$1814$: Ludwig Schläfli

$1850$: Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

$1876$: Robert John Tainsh Bell

$1912$: David Pinhusovich Milman

$1954$: David Charles Ullrich

$16$th

$1885$: Michel Plancherel

$1926$: Peter Hagis, Jr.

$1929$: Halina Moss

$17$th

$1492$: Adam Ries

$1905$: Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar

$1911$: Dov Jarden

$1911$: George Joseph Stigler

$1917$: Daniel Shanks

$18$th

$1886$: Soichi Kakeya

$1937$: John Douglas Dixon

$1938$: Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis

$1939$: Christoph Bandelow

$19$th

$1736$: James Watt (I)

$1747$: Johann Elert Bode

$1879$: Guido Fubini

$1900$: Bernard Osgood Koopman

$1902$: Joseph Warner Howe

$1909$: Thomas Weymon Adair

$1911$: Garrett Birkhoff

$1917$: Graham Higman

$1946$: Aleksandr Yuryevich Olshansky

$20$th

$1775$: André-Marie Ampère

$1843$: Giulio Ascoli

$1895$: Gábor Szegő

$1920$: Edwin Hewitt

$1944$: Harold Garth Dales

$21$st

$1827$: Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin

$1852$: Clarence Abiathar Waldo

$1860$: David Eugene Smith

$1874$: René-Louis Baire

$22$nd

$1831$: Francis Guthrie

$1874$: Leonard Eugene Dickson

$1880$: Frigyes Riesz

$1951$: George C. Casella

$23$rd

$1862$: David Hilbert

$1891$: Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

$1923$: Marvin Stern

$1924$: Michael James Lighthill

$24$th

$1902$: Oskar Morgenstern

$1924$: Howard Raiffa

$1931$: Lars Valter Hörmander

$1942$: Melvin Fitting

$25$th

$1736$: Joseph Louis Lagrange

$1812$: William Shanks

$1843$: Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz

$1854$: August Otto Föppl

$1855$: Christian Sophus Juel

$1870$: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch

$1926$: Donald John Lewis

$1926$: Gaisi Takeuti

$1951$: Steven Howard Weintraub

$1952$: Kenneth John Falconer

$26$th

$1862$: Eliakim Hastings Moore

$1971$: Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz

$27$th

$1832$: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

$28$th

$1540$: Ludolph van Ceulen

$1888$: Louis Joel Mordell

$29$th

$1810$: Ernst Eduard Kummer

$1888$: Sydney Chapman

$1928$: Joseph Bernard Kruskal

$1944$: Thomas J. Jech

$30$th

$1915$: Horst Feistel

$1934$: John Jay Greever, III

$31$st

$1841$: Samuel Loyd

$1886$: George Neville Watson

$1945$: Persi Warren Diaconis

Precise date unknown

$1526$: Rafael Bombelli

$1872$: Peruvemba Venkatesvara Seshu Aiyar

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