Events
Birthdays
- Chris Raschka [1959]
American writer and illustrator - Adam Osborne [1939]
Designer of the Osborne 1, the first portable computer available commercially - Leslie Smith [1918]
Co-founder of Lesney Products - Will Eisner [1917]
American cartoonist and populariser of the 'graphic novel' - Joseph von Fraunhofer [1787]
Discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines
Death Anniversaries
- Hans Bethe [2005]
Nobel laureate known for stellar nucleosynthesis - Pearl S. Buck [1973]
Nobel Prize winning author - Gottlieb Daimler [1900]
German engineer known for his contributions to the development of the internal combustion engine