Events
Birthdays
- Larry Sanger [1968]
Co-founder of Wikipedia - Dan Bricklin [1951]
Father of the Spreadsheet - Frits Zernike [1888]
Inventor of the phase contrast microscope - Roald Amundsen [1872]
First person to reach the south pole - Giuseppe Piazzi [1746]
Discoverer of Ceres, the first dwarf planet
Death Anniversaries
- Alan Kupperberg [2015]
American comic book artist - Heinz Zemanek [2014]
Computer pioneer known for Mailüfterl computer - John Cocke [2002]
Father of RISC architecture and co-inventor of the CYK algorithm - Maurice De Bevere [2001]
Creator of 'Lucky Luke' comics - Julian Schwinger [1994]
Nobel laureate known for perturbation theory