2005 Robert Moog, American Inventor
2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91
2002 Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84
2002 Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80
2002 Ruth Handler, inventor, invented Barbie, dies at 85
2002 Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65
2000 Hedy Lamarr, actress/inventor, Samson and Deliah, dies at 86
1998 Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93
1998 Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93
1997 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81
1996 Frank Whittle, English Inventor
1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89
1996 [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88
1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
1995 Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1995 Konrad Zuse, German Inventor
1994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82
1994 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1993 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
1993 George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
1992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
1992 Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic and Span), dies at 98
1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1991 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
1991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
1991 Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1985 Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1983 R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1983 R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor
1982 Colin Chapman, English Inventor
1973 Laurens Hammond, American Inventor
1972 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor
1969 Linus Torvalds, Inventor
1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies
1968 Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
1967 John Romero, American Inventor
1967 Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies
1964 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor
1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
1961 Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68
1961 Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
1959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies
1958 Charles Kettering, American Inventor
1958 Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1957 Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
1957 Jeff Hawkins, American Inventor
1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1955 Tim Bray, Canadian Inventor
1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English Inventor
1955 Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor
1954 Edwin Armstrong, American Inventor
1954 Edwin H Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1953 Andy Hertzfeld, American Inventor
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1951 Dean Kamen, American Inventor
1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1948 Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor
1946 Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor, Jarvik 7 artificial heart
1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies
1944 Erno Rubik, born in Budapest, inventor, Rubik's cube
1944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies
1943 Vinton Cerf, American Inventor
1943 Burt Rutan, Inventor
1940 Walter Chrysler, American Inventor
1940 Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum
1939 James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies
1936 Frank Hornby, English Inventor
1935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
1934 Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer
1934 Robert Moog, American Inventor
1934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor, PASCAL
1933 Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system
1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84
1931 Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor
1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1931 Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies
1931 Melvil Dewey, American Inventor
1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, U.S. inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
1928 Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor, electron microscopist
1928 Colin Chapman, English Inventor
1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1925 Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft
1925 Seymour Cray, inventor, Cray I computer
1925 Douglas Engelbart, American Inventor
1924 John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
1920 Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor, Heimlich maneuver
1919 Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor
1918 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor, Endoscope
1915 Les Paul, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, guitarist/inventor, Les Paul guitar
1915 Les Paul, guitarist inventor, Les Paul
1913 Rudolf Diesel, German Inventor
1913 Maurice Wilkes, inventor, stored program concept for computers
1911 Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor, Artificial Kidney
1910 Konrad Zuse, German Inventor
1910 Christopher Cockerell, inventor, Hovercraft
1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
1909 Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid,
1909 Edwin H. Land, American Inventor
1909 Jay Morris Arena, inventor and pediatrician
1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960,
1907 Earl S Tupper, inventor, Tupperware
1907 Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine
1907 Frank Whittle, English Inventor
1907 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
1906 Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1906 Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor, electronic TV
1906 Chester F Carlson, inventor, photocopy
1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, Hughes Aircraft, inventor
1905 Piet Hein, poet/inventor
1903 Richard J Gatling, U.S. inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1902 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
1902 Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine
1901 Ernest O Lawrence, Canton, South Carolina, inventor, Cyclotron-Nobel 1939
1901 Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube
1901 Elisha Gray, American Inventor
1900 Fred Waring, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, musician/conductor/inventor, Waring Blender
1899 Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor, Scrabble
1899 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor
1898 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1896 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor
1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor, nylon
1895 R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor, geodesic dome
1895 R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor
1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1895 Laurens Hammond, American Inventor
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City)
1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM
1890 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor
1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1889 Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1888 John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor, father of TV
1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft
1886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible
1886 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor
1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1881 Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor, large goalie glove
1881 Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932
1880 Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train
1879 W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor
1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, U.S., inventor, hydroplane
1877 Ole Evinrude, inventor, outboard marine engine
1877 Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor, elecrostatic precipitator
1876 Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor, auto self-starter
1876 Charles Kettering, American Inventor
1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1875 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor, Porsche, Volkswagen
1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909
1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube
1872 Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock
1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1870 Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor, grape-shot shells
1870 Georges Claude, inventor, neon light
1870 George Cormack, cereal inventor, Wheaties
1869 J Frank Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.
1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand
1865 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74
1864 Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Conf brig-gen, dies at 42
1863 Frank Hornby, English Inventor
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy
1862 Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.
1861 James A Naismith, inventor, basketball
1861 Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
1860 Elmer A Sperry, inventor, gyrocompass
1860 Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor, electrocardiograph
1860 Charles Gordon Curtis, U.S. attorney/inventor, Curtis Turbine
1860 Herman Hollerith, inventor, 1st electric tabulating machine
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel
1859 DeWitt B Brace, inventor, spectrophotometer
1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, Diesel motor
1857 Maytag, inventor, washing machine
1856 Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia, electrical engineer/inventor, Tesla Coil
1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1855 William Seward Burroughs, New York, inventor, recording adding machine
1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor
1854 George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera
1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor, steam turbine
1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor, linotype
1854 Dugald Clerk, inventor, 2-stroke motorcycle engine
1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone
1852 Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine
1851 Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record
1851 Melvil Dewey, American Inventor
1850 Lawrence Hargrave, inventor, box kite
1849 Ambrose Fleming, inventor, diode
1848 Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor, saxophone
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone
1847 Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor
1846 George Sax, inventor, saxophone
1846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
1844 William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor, spoonerisms
1844 Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
1841 Clement Ader, French inventor, 1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft
1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor, automatic single-barrel rifle
1839 Chardonnet, inventor, rayon
1838 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor, rigid dirigibles
1838 William Perkin, inventor, 1st artificial dye
1838 Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
1837 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, celluloid
1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor, cable car
1835 Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone
1835 Elisha Gray, American Inventor
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1833 Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1832 William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography
1832 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor, electricstatic generator
1831 David Edward Hughes, inventor, microphone, teleprinter
1831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car
1831 Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84
1827 Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor, cordiet
1827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73
1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor, tissue paper dress pattern
1826 Zenobe Theophile Gramme, inventor, electric motor
1825 Eli Whitney, American Inventor
1824 Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor, Plimsoll line for ships
1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables
1821 Linus Yale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, Yale cylinder lock
1820 James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis
1819 Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter
1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, U.S., inventor, hand-cranked machine gun
1816 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor, saxophone
1814 Samuel Colt, U.S. inventor, Colt 6 shot revolver
1813 Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire
1813 Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor, stenographic shorthand
1811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor, 1st practical home sewing machine
1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor, safe elevator
1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union lt adm/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon
1809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, Mechanical reaper
1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor
1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor, sugar refiner
1804 Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor, died in 1877
1803 John Gorrie, inventor, cold-air process of refrigeration
1803 John Ericsson, U.S., inventor, screw propeller, /shipbuilder-USS Monitor
1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor, vulcanization process for rubber
1800 James Bogardus, U.S. inventor/builder, made cast-iron buildings
1798 John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
1797 Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1792 Charles Babbage, English inventor, calculating machine
1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse, U.S. painter/inventor, telegraph
1790 August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip
1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor
1790 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor
1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1783 John Heathcoat, inventor, lace-making machinery
1781 David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor, kaleidoscope
1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive
1781 Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor, stethoscope
1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway
1779 Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor, slide rule, pocket chessboard
1778 James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1771 Alois Senefelder, inventor, lithography
1771 Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor, steam locomotive
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic
1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
1765 Eli Whitney, inventor, Cotton Gin
1765 Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography
1761 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor, shrapnel shell
1761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil
1753 Samuel Crompton, English inventor, mule-jenny spinning machine
1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor, food canning, bouillon tablet
1748 Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1745 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor, battery
1744 John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies
1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom
1743 John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
1741 Charles Willson Peale, U.S., port painter/inventor, George Washington
1738 Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine
1736 James Watt, Scotland, inventor, steam engine
1732 Richard Arkwright, inventor, spinning frame
1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90
1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor, sandwich
1712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1706 John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor
1706 Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor
1701 Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor, centigrade temp scale
1695 Christiaen Huygens, inventor/astronomer, dies at 66
1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor, thermometer
1682 John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope
1680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1655 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor, clarinet
1637 John van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor, fire extinguisher
1633 Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
1619 John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried
1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
1602 Otto von Guericke, inventor, air pump
1601 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor, magic lantern
1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule
1468 John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
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