Birthdate: August 28, 1910

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Graveland, Netherlands

Died: February 26, 1985

Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Dutch-American economist Tjalling C. Koopmans is remembered for designing activity analysis, a method meant for distribution of resources for attaining an economic objective at the lowest cost, along with Soviet economist Leonid Kantorovich. His research extended to econometrics and linear programming. He also taught at Yale.