Events
Birthdays
- Kevin Henkes [1960]
American author and illustrator - Michael A. Stackpole [1957]
American game designer and author - Bill Nye [1955]
American actor and populariser of science - Josh Kirby [1928]
English illustrator and artist - Konosuke Matsushita [1894]
Founder of Panasonic - Giovanni Giorgi [1871]
Proposer of the Giorgi system of measurement - Anders Celsius [1701]
Swedish physicist and proposer of a temperature scale named after him
Death Anniversaries
- Ross McWhirter [1975]
Co-founder of the Guinness World Records with his twin brother - Ada Lovelace [1852]
Creator of the first machine algorithm