Events
Birthdays
- Michael S. Hart [1947]
Founder of Project Gutenberg and inventor of the e-book - Gerald Potterton [1931]
British-Canadian animator and director - Gerard Salton [1927]
Father of Information Retrieval - Ralph H. Baer [1922]
The Father of Video Games - Shigeru Mizuki [1922]
Japanese manga artist and writer - Howard H. Aiken [1900]
Pioneer of computing and designer of the ASCC - Otto Hahn [1879]
Father of Nuclear Chemistry who discovered nuclear fission - Frederic Goudy [1865]
American typographer - Kenneth Grahame [1859]
British writer known for 'The Wind in the Willows' - LaMarcus Adna Thompson [1848]
Inventor of the roller coaster and other gravity rides - Josephine Cochrane [1839]
Co-inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher - Ignacy Łukasiewicz [1822]
Inventor of the modern kerosene lamp
Death Anniversaries
- Jesse Shera [1982]
American librarian and information scientist - Max Miedinger [1980]
Designer of Helvetica typeface - Hachikō [1935]
Japanese dog famous for his loyalty featured in movies, statues, books etc. - Johannes Diderik van der Waals [1923]
Dutch theoretical physicist - Ferdinand von Zeppelin [1917]
Founder of the Zeppelin airship company