British computer scientist and academic known for his work on the EDSAC and the Burrows-Wheeler transform. He is credited to have co-invented the subroutine with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill.
David Wheeler was born on 9 February, 1927
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster occurs
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William Shakespeare baptised
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World Intellectual Property Day [World Intellectual Property Day]
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