Birthdays
- Mark Pesce [1962]
Co-inventor of VRML - Aaron Allston [1960]
American game designer and author - Andries van Dam [1938]
Contributor to Hypertext Editing System (HES) - Kateryna Yushchenko [1919]
Ukrainian computer scientist who created the world's first high-level programming language - Jesse Shera [1903]
American librarian and information scientist - James Thurber [1894]
American author, playwright, cartoonist and journalist - E. C. Segar [1894]
Creator of 'Thimble Theatre' comic strip that introduced 'Popeye' - Charles-Émile Reynaud [1844]
Inventor of the Praxinoscope and the first person to have projected animated cartoons
Death Anniversaries
- Betty Holberton [2001]
One of the original programmers of the ENIAC - Hermann Weyl [1955]
German mathematician and theoretical physicist - Herbert Spencer [1903]
English polymath who coined 'survival of the fittest' phrase - George Boole [1864]
English mathematician and philosopher who laid the foundation of Boolean logic