Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/October

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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

$1671$: Luigi Guido Grandi

$1922$: Yang Chen-Ning

$2$nd

$1791$: Victor-Amédée Lebesgue

$1926$: Michio Suzuki

$1934$: William Warren Bartley III

$1935$: Michael Nathaniel Bleicher

$1945$: Martin Edward Hellman

$3$rd

$1870$: Henri Claudius Rosaris Dulac

$1901$: François Le Lionnais

$1915$: Gail Sellers Young Jr.

$1932$: Karl Heinrich Hofmann

$1937$: Hayward Rose Alker

$1944$: Pierre René Deligne

$1963$: Thomas Ward

$4$th

$1759$: Louis François Antoine Arbogast

$1804$: Wilhelm Eduard Weber

$5$th

$1781$: Bernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano

$1861$: Thomas Little Heath

$1898$: Philip Franklin

$1910$: Nathan Jacobson

$6$th

$1795$: Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues

$1831$: Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind

$1865$: Willem Abraham Wythoff

$1898$: Karl Menninger

$1908$: Sergei Lvovich Sobolev

$1918$: Abraham Robinson

$1936$: Robert Phelan Langlands

$7$th

$1885$: Niels Henrik David Bohr

$1899$: Øystein Ore

$1905$: Wilhelm Ljunggren

$1939$: John Edward Hopcroft

$8$th

$1924$: John Ashworth Nelder

$1932$: Kenneth Ira Appel

$1958$: Christian Friedrich Krattenthaler

$9$th

$1581$: Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

$1704$: Johann Andreas Segner

$1891$: Rodion Osievich Kuzmin

$1902$: Hansraj Gupta

$1914$: Sze-Tsen Hu

$1924$: Richard Albert Dean

$1924$: Maurice Henry Quenouille

$1949$: Fan Chung Graham

$10$th

$1838$: William Carmichael McIntosh

$1939$: George Gasper

$1939$: Neil James Alexander Sloane

$1940$: David Anthony Klarner

$1942$: James Stuart Milne

$1944$: Melvyn Bernard Nathanson

$1945$: Robert Louis Griess, Jr.

$11$th

$1881$: Lewis Fry Richardson

$1885$: Alfréd Haar

$1910$: Cahit Arf

$1920$: Carlton Edward Lemke

$1928$: Ian Grant Macdonald

$1932$: Dana Stewart Scott

$12$th

$1973$: Agata Smoktunowicz

$13$th

$1885$: Viggo Brun

$1911$: John William Wrench, Jr.

$1932$: John Griggs Thompson

$1956$: Colin Conrad Adams

$1980$: James Grime

$14$th

$1687$: Robert Simson

$1801$: Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau

$1923$: Cassius Tocqueville Ionescu Tulcea

$1938$: Philippe G. Ciarlet

$15$th

$1608$: Evangelista Torricelli

$1776$: Peter Barlow

$1875$: André-Louis Cholesky

$1890$: Jakob Nielsen

$1909$: Bernhard Hermann Neumann

$1928$: Donald Bruce Gillies

$1941$: Alain M. Robert

$16$th

$1879$: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain

$1937$: Alexander Hurwitz

$1970$: Vincent Stefaan Rijmen

$17$th

$1759$: Jakob II Bernoulli

$1888$: Paul Isaac Bernays

$1900$: Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov

$1927$: Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch

$1957$: Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit

$18$th

$1919$: George Edward Pelham Box

$1942$: Alfred S. Posamentier

$1950$: David Marc Kreps

$19$th

$1910$: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar‎

$1917$: Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

$20$th

$1632$: Christopher Michael Wren

$1760$: François Peyrard

$1863$: William Henry Young

$1881$: George Waddel Snedecor

$1904$: Hans Lewy

$1914$: R.H. Bing

$1923$: Murray Ralph Spiegel

$1929$: Regina Iosifovna Tyshkevich

$21$st

$1687$: Nicolaus I Bernoulli

$1882$: Harry Schultz Vandiver

$1893$: William Leonard Ferrar

$1914$: Martin Gardner

$22$nd

$1511$: Erasmus Reinhold

$1907$: Sarvadaman D.S. Chowla

$1916$: Nathan Jacob Fine

$1922$: Tudor Ganea

$1942$: Bruno Buchberger

$1948$: Bruce Evan Blackadar

$23$rd

$1944$: Allen Edward Hatcher

$1972$: Sudipto Banerjee

$24$th

$1821$: Philipp Ludwig von Seidel

$1873$: Edmund Taylor Whittaker

$1904$: Ingebrigt Johansson

$1906$: Alexander Osipovich Gelfond

$25$th

$1811$: Évariste Galois

$1875$: Gilbert Newton Lewis

$1915$: Ivan Morton Niven

$1928$: Peter Naur

$26$th

$1849$: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

$1930$: Walter Feit

$27$th

$1678$: Pierre Raymond de Montmort

$1798$: Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk

$1856$: Ernest William Hobson

$1916$: Robert Dorfman

$1926$: Herman Rubin

$1930$: John Rolfe Isbell

$1947$: Andreas Raphael Blass

$28$th

$1804$: Pierre François Verhulst

$1911$: Shiing-Shen Chern

$1919$: Gerhard Ringel

$1950$: Charles Alexander Weibel

$1960$: Landon Curt Noll

$29$th

$1791$: Wilhelm August Förstemann

$1897$: Edwin James George Pitman

$30$th

$1827$: Ernst von Haselberg

$1840$: Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg

$1906$: Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff

$1907$: Harold Davenport

$1946$: William Paul Thurston

$31$st

$1815$: Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

$1935$: Ronald Lewis Graham

$1941$: Peter Henry George Aczel

$1941$: Roland Edwin Larson

Precise date unknown

$1630$: Isaac Barrow

$1893$: Leigh Mercer

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