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Events on 27 September

Events

• Google claims 27 September as its birthday [1998]
• GNU project announced [1983]
• Paper with Albert Einstein’s famous equation received by journal [1905]
• Rosetta Stone deciphered by Jean-François Champollion [1822]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• Google’s Birthday

Birthdays

• Kristoffer Zetterstrand [1973]
  Swedish artist
• Jason Kottke [1972]
  Designer of Silkscreen typeface
• Martin Handford [1956]
  Creator of 'Where's Wally?' (Where's Waldo?)
• Larry Wall [1954]
  Creator of Perl programming language
• Jim Shooter [1951]
  American artist, editor and publisher
• Alan Shugart [1930]
  Founder of Seagate Technologies and Shugart Associates
• Bernard Waber [1921]
  American author known for 'Lyle' series of books
• Martin Ryle [1918]
  Nobel Prize winning radio astronomer
• Thomas Nast [1840]
  Father of the American Cartoon

Death Anniversaries

• S. R. Ranganathan [1972]
  Indian mathematician and information scientist