Events
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Pierre Omidyar [1967]
Founder of eBay - Lucas de Groot [1963]
Designer of typefaces such as Calibri, Thesis and Consolas - Tim Bray [1955]
Founder of OpenText and co-author of the original XML specification - Robert Dewar [1945]
Developer of software languages and compilers - Michael M. Richter [1938]
Pioneer in case-based reasoning - Siméon Denis Poisson [1781]
French mathematician and physicist
Death Anniversaries
- Joseph Friedman [1982]
Inventor of the bendy straw - Don Figlozzi [1981]
Probable creator of the first animations used on TV - Gideon Sundback [1954]
Inventor of the zipper - Anders Jonas Ångström [1874]
Pioneer of spectroscopy