Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

French physician

Date of Birth: 28-May-1738

Place of Birth: Saintes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1814

Profession: physician, politician, inventor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dr.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [??z?f i?as gij?t?~]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution.
Although he really did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it.
The actual inventor of the prototype was a man named Tobias Schmidt working with the kings physician Antoine Louis.