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2009 Kelly Groucutt, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres, dies in Worcester, England, at age 63

2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91

1996 David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83

1993 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97

1990 Bulent Arel, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, dies at 72

1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems, EDS

1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin

1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City

1955 John Gilmore, born in America, fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, among founders of Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunks mailing list, Electronic Frontier Foundation

1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1953 Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center

1952 Melvyn Gale, born in London, England, musician, classical musician, cellist, member, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, runs CD factory

1946 Daria Semegen, born in Bambery, West German, composer, classical music, electronic music genres, Fulbright Fellow

1945 Kelly Groucutt, born in Coseley, England, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres

1944 Paul Lansky, born in New York, composer, electronic music, computer music language pioneer, studied with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, professor of music at Princeton University

1944 Rick Price, born in Birmingham, England, bassist, rock music, bass player, played with Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, The Move

1942 Charles Dodge, born in Ames, Iowa, composer, electronic music, computer music genres, studied with Gunther Schuller, Darius Milhaud

1938 Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin

1938 Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds

1938 Mike Mainieri, born in the Bronx, New York, jazz fusion vibraphonist, worked with Steps Ahead, pioneer in 'synth-vibe' electronic vibraphone music, recorded with Buddy Rich, Jeremy Steig, featured on Dire Straights tracks

1938 Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer, UEI, Paintbox

1938 Wilf Corrigan, English/U.S. electronic manufacturer, LSI Logic

1937 Jon Hassell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, composer, played the trumpet, PhD in musicology, known for influencing world music scene with unique electronic manipulation of trumpet sounds

1936 Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University

1935 Folke Rabe, born in Stockholm, Sweden, composer, electronic drone pieces, works include 'What??'

1935 Gordon Mumma, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, composer, musician, co-founder, the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1935 Georg Katzer, born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, German composer, established electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic

1932 Tod Dockstader, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, composer, musique concrete, electronic music, principle work, Quartermass

1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, born in Germany, composer, worked with electronic music, musical spatialization

1927 Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music

1919 Bulent Arel, born in Istanbul, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, worked with Edgard Varese, designed, installed electronic music laboratory at Yale University

1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor, 1st electronic computer-ENIAC

1916 Helmut Eder, born in Linz, Austria, composer, studied and later taught at the Linz Conservatory, conducted the Singakademie, founded electronic music studio in Linz in 1959

1912 David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman

1906 Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor, electronic TV

1896 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor


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