Events
Birthdays
- Ian Horrocks [1958]
British computer scientist - Douglas Adams [1952]
Author of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series - Janosch [1931]
German illustrator and writer of children's books - David Paul Gregg [1923]
Inventor of the Optical disc - Ezra Jack Keats [1916]
American writer and illustrator of books for children - J. C. R. Licklider [1915]
American computer scientist known for cybernetics, ARPANET and artificial intelligence - Vannevar Bush [1890]
Co-founder of Raytheon, developer of Memex and inventor of a differential analyser - Urbain Le Verrier [1811]
French astronomer who predicted the existence of planet Neptune
Death Anniversaries
- Sid Couchey [2012]
American comic book artist - Rudolf Hell [2002]
Inventor of the Hellschreiber teleprinter - Philo Farnsworth [1971]
Pioneer in the electronic television field and prolific inventor - Ole Kirk Christiansen [1958]
Founder of Lego - Alexander Fleming [1955]
Nobel laureate and discoverer of penicillin - Carlos Glidden [1877]
One of the inventors of the typewriter