Events
Birthdays
- Mo Willems [1968]
American author, animator and illustrator - Mike Markkula [1942]
American entrepreneur and later CEO of Apple Computer - Andrew Donald Booth [1918]
British electrical engineer and computer scientist - Elsa Beskow [1874]
Swedish author and illustrator - Thomas Edison [1847]
Prolific inventor and developer of the DC electric system - Almon Brown Strowger [1839]
Inventor of the rotary dial on telephones known for the Strowger Switch - Henry Fox Talbot [1800]
Inventor of salted paper and talbotype photographic processes
Death Anniversaries
- Jiro Taniguchi [2017]
Japanese manga artist - Charles Algernon Parsons [1931]
Inventor of the compound steam turbine - René Descartes [1650]
Great mathematician, scientist and philosopher