Events
Birthdays
- Dustin Moskovitz [1984]
Co-founder of Facebook - Bassel Khartabil [1981]
Palestinian-Syrian software developer - Shuji Nakamura [1954]
Inventor of the blue and white LEDs - David H. Levy [1948]
Co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Arnold Stark Lobel [1933]
Author and illustrator of children’s book - Rudi Bass [1914]
American graphic artist and illustrator - Hergé [1907]
Creator of 'The Adventures of Tintin' comic books - Bodo von Borries [1905]
Co-inventor of the electron microscope - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859]
British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes - William Sturgeon [1783]
Inventor of electromagnets and the first practical electric motor
Death Anniversaries
- Martin Gardner [2010]
American mathematician and populariser of mathematics - Wolfgang Reitherman [1985]
Animator and director at Disney Studios - Albert Claude [1983]
Nobel laureate who developed the cell fractionation technique