Birthdate: February 8, 1828

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Nantes, France

Died: March 24, 1905

French author Jules Verne, also known as the “Father of Science Fiction,” is best remembered for his legendary adventure novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He also became the world’s second most-translated writer since 1979.