Events
Birthdays
- Sir Peter Blake [1932]
English graphic designer - Eric Carle [1929]
American designer and illustrator - Peyo [1928]
Belgian cartoonist and creator of 'The Smurfs' - Alex Toth [1928]
American cartoonist - Hermann Oberth [1894]
One of the fathers of rocketry and astronautics - Charles Bergstresser [1858]
Co-founder Dow Jones & Company
Death Anniversaries
- Annie Easley [2011]
American computer and rocket scientist - Ernest Walton [1995]
Nobel laureate known for his research that laid the foundation of nuclear power - Sir John Boyd Orr [1971]
Nobel laureate and co-founder of the World Academy of Art and Science - Sir William Fothergill Cooke [1879]
Co-founder of the world's first public telegraph company - Giovanni Battista Riccioli [1671]
Italian astronomer who introduced the lunar nomenclature scheme