Events from the world of technology and science – Includes important happenings, days, birthdays and deaths.
Events
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Zev Siegl [1955]
Co-founder of Starbucks Coffee Company - Richard C. Hoagland [1945]
American author known for his conspiracy theories - Albert Uderzo [1927]
French comic book illustrator who created 'Astérix' with René Goscinny - Mort Weisinger [1915]
American comic book writer who co-created several popular characters - Wolfgang Pauli [1900]
Nobel laureate known for 'Pauli exclusion principle' - Guglielmo Marconi [1874]
Inventor of the radio - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville [1817]
French printer and bookseller known for inventing the phonautograph - Charles Sauria [1812]
Inventor of phosphorus based matches
Death Anniversaries
- Saul Bass [1996]
American graphic designer and director - George Herriman [1944]
Creator of 'Krazy Kat' comic strip - Siméon Denis Poisson [1840]
French mathematician and physicist - Anders Celsius [1744]
Swedish physicist and proposer of a temperature scale named after him