births
February 22, 1796
Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist (died 1874)
Adolphe Quetelet
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE was a Belgian-French astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.