Events
Birthdays
- Glen A. Larson [1937]
American television producer and writer - Gordon Moore [1929]
Co-founder of Intel Corporation - André Franquin [1924]
Belgian comics artist - Carolyn Haywood [1898]
American illustrator and writer of children's books - J. R. R. Tolkien [1892]
English author of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'
Death Anniversaries
- Peter Naur [2016]
Danish computer scientist known for BNF notation - Vicar [2012]
Chilean cartoonist - Will Eisner [2005]
American cartoonist and populariser of the 'graphic novel' - Reginald Punnett [1967]
Scientific author and developer of the Punnett square - Frank Haven Hall [1911]
Inventor of the typewriter in the US