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Birthdays

Gerald McDermott [1941]
American illustrator, writer and filmmaker
Irving Langmuir [1881]
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
André-Jacques Garnerin [1769]
First human to jump using the parachute

Death Anniversaries

Antonio Segura [2012]
Spanish comics writer
Gil Kane [2000]
American comic book artist
George Stibitz [1995]
One of the fathers of the first digital computer who also coined the term 'digital'
A. A. Milne [1956]
Author of 'Winnie-the-Pooh' books
Edwin Howard Armstrong [1954]
Developer of frequency modulation (FM)
Jacob Roggeveen [1729]
Discoverer of Easter Island

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