Events
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Dave Halili [1968]
American illustrator, graphic designer - Bill Plympton [1946]
Academy Award winning filmmaker, animator and cartoon artist - Roger L. Easton [1921]
Designer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) - Claude Shannon [1916]
Father of information theory - George Stibitz [1904]
One of the fathers of the first digital computer who also coined the term 'digital' - Carl Friedrich Gauss [1777]
One of the greatest mathematicians of all time
Death Anniversaries
- Venetia Burney [2009]
11-year old girl who named planet Pluto - Richard Scarry [1994]
Children's author and famous illustrator