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2004 Death - Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83

2002 Death - Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65

1997 Death - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82

1997 Death - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91

1996 Death - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81

1996 Death - Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81

1996 Death - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80

1996 Death - Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48

1996 Death - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79

1996 Death - Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91

1996 Death - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90

1996 Death - Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88

1996 Death - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101

1996 Death - Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86

1996 Death - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91

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

1996 Death - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92

1996 Death - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77

1996 Death - Edmund Happold, structural engineer, founded engineering constituency, Buro Happold, worked on Sydney Opera House, dies at 65

1996 Death - Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67

1996 Death - Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89

1995 Event - Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland

1995 Death - Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75

1995 Death - Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone

1994 Death - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31

1994 Death - Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85

1987 Death - Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Kain), dies at 80

1982 Death - Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies

1973 Death - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79

1969 Birthday - Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system

1968 Death - Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78

1966 Birthday - Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis

1963 Birthday - Pedro Duque, born in Madrid, Spain, engineer and astronaut, STS-78 alt, sk:95

1962 Birthday - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer

1962 Death - Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82

1962 Death - Charles-Jean baron de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at 96

1961 Death - Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies

1960 Death - Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies

1960 Death - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58

1955 Event - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell

1955 Birthday - Bill Nye, born in Washington, D.C., comedian, television host, mechanical engineer, host of children's science show, 'Bill Nye the Science Guy'

1949 Birthday - Syed Kirmani, cricketer, Indian keeper after Engineer

1948 Birthday - Jimmy Hood, born in Lesmahagow, Scotland, Member of Parliament for Lanark and Hamilton East, Labor Party, worked as a mining engineer

1948 Birthday - Richard Day, engineer/development expert

1947 Birthday - Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic

1946 Death - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed

1945 Death - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies

1943 Birthday - Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days

1938 Birthday - Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, 1961-75

1937 Death - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies

1931 Death - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84

1930 Birthday - Edmund Happold, born in England, structural engineer, founded engineering constituency, Buro Happold, worked on Sydney Opera House

1929 Birthday - Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall

1929 Death - Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84

1928 Birthday - Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer

1926 Birthday - Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp

1926 Birthday - Jack Levy, mechanical engineer

1925 Birthday - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft

1925 Birthday - Trevor Hughes, water engineer

1925 Death - Clement Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84

1923 Death - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91

1922 Birthday - Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer

1920 Death - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73

1920 Birthday - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist

1919 Birthday - Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet, Reino da Estupidez

1918 Birthday - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer

1916 Birthday - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer

1916 Birthday - Gordon Scarrott, engineer

1915 Birthday - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer

1915 Birthday - Ronald Ogden, engineer

1915 Birthday - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer

1915 Birthday - Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer

1914 Death - George Westinghouse, U.S. engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67

1913 Birthday - Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer

1913 Event - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

1913 Birthday - Edward Fiennes-Clinton, born in Australia, born Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln, engineer, landowner, inherited Earldom but formally did not prove his right to the title

1912 Birthday - David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman

1912 Death - J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58

1912 Birthday - William Gordon Harris, civil engineer

1912 Birthday - Roy Hofheinz, engineer, Houston Astrodome

1911 Death - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies

1910 Birthday - Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer

1907 Birthday - Noel Walton Bott, engineer

1907 Birthday - Lewis Boddington, aerospace engineer

1907 Event - Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico

1907 Birthday - Kenneth Allen, engineer

1907 Death - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59

1906 Birthday - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer

1906 Birthday - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer

1906 Birthday - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer

1905 Birthday - Angus Paton, civil engineer

1905 Birthday - Walter Hassan, engineer

1905 Birthday - Frits Philips, Dutch engineer/CEO, Philips

1905 Birthday - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer

1904 Birthday - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer

1904 Birthday - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer

1903 Death - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83

1903 Birthday - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer

1902 Death - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74

1902 Birthday - William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp

1902 Birthday - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer

1901 Birthday - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, typewriter

1900 Event - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles

1900 Death - George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle

1899 Death - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76

1898 Death - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies

1895 Birthday - Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer

1894 Death - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89

1890 Birthday - Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author

1889 Event - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb"

1889 Birthday - Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV

1889 Death - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85

1885 Birthday - Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer, dikes

1880 Birthday - W Hupkes, engineer/director, Dutch Rail 1938

1880 Birthday - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine

1878 Birthday - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer, CIOS Gold Medal-1954

1874 Death - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86

1870 Birthday - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge

1869 Death - Frederik W. Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68

1864 Death - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies

1864 Birthday - [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer, Ballad of Casey Jones

1863 Birthday - C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer, Rateau steam turbine

1861 Birthday - Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor

1860 Death - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies

1860 Birthday - Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, Colombia-Panama

1859 Birthday - Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains

1859 Birthday - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel

1858 Birthday - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer, Philips

1858 Birthday - George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal

1858 Birthday - Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, Diesel motor

1856 Birthday - Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia, electrical engineer/inventor, Tesla Coil

1854 Birthday - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer

1854 Birthday - Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer and Governor of Suriname, 1902 - 1905

1852 Event - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight

1848 Birthday - Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer

1848 Death - George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies

1847 Birthday - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer, Limburg's coal basin

1847 Birthday - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, tectonic geology

1847 Birthday - Karl von Bach, German engineer, Maschinenelemente

1846 Birthday - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes

1842 Birthday - Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist, Linde-procede

1842 Birthday - Clarence King, mining engineer, geologist

1841 Birthday - George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer

1841 Birthday - Clement Ader, French engineer

1838 Death - John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82

1837 Birthday - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated

1834 Birthday - Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle

1834 Birthday - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer

1832 Birthday - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, Eiffel tower

1828 Birthday - Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer Confederate Army

1827 Birthday - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer, New Waterway

1822 Birthday - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer, rails/trains

1820 Birthday - James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis

1818 Birthday - Jeremy F Gilmer, Major Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept

1817 Birthday - John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway

1813 Birthday - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine

1810 Birthday - William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect

1807 Birthday - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University

1805 Death - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68

1800 Birthday - Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer

1798 Birthday - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist

1788 Birthday - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter

1787 Birthday - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curaeao

1772 Birthday - Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer

1769 Birthday - Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor

1764 Birthday - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect, built Capitol

1763 Birthday - Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph

1758 Birthday - Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer

1755 Birthday - Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer

1754 Death - Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75

1736 Birthday - Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer

1724 Birthday - John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer

1716 Death - Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63

1683 Birthday - Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, France, biologist/engineer

1678 Birthday - Nicolaas S Cruquius, Dutch hydraulic engineer, drained Haarlemmermeer

1660 Birthday - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building

1650 Death - John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74













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