Events
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Clarence Ellis [1943]
American computer scientist bets known for developing groupware at Xerox's PARC - Edsger W. Dijkstra [1930]
First to implementor of ALGOL - Richard Feynman [1918]
Nobel Prize winning physicist and author - Salvador Dalí [1904]
Spanish painter, photographer and sculptor - Ottmar Mergenthaler [1854]
Inventor of the linotype machine
Death Anniversaries
- Tony DeZuniga [2011]
Comics artist and illustrator - Bill Peet [2002]
American children’s book illustrator - Douglas Adams [2001]
Author of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series - Chester Gould [1985]
Creator of 'Dick Tracy' comic strips - Frederic Goudy [1947]
American typographer - Edmond Becquerel [1891]
- John Herschel [1871]
British polymath and inventor who coined the term 'photography'