2015 Event Venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has successfully defended itself in a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by former junior partner Ellen Pao; the case was monitored by Silicon Valley firms, which tend to be male-dominated 1996 Death William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday 1971 Birthday Mark Byers, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1953 Birthday Stephen Byers, born in Wolverhampton, England, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North 1927 Birthday William Mitchell Byers, musician
