2013 Event The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist 2002 Death Edsger Dijkstra, programmer, helped to vanquish the GOTO statement in programming, dies at 72 1996 Death Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54 1994 Death Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71 1993 Death Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 1970 Birthday John Carmack, born in Roeland Park, Kansas, game programmer, co-founder of id Software, lead programmer for computer games, 'Quake', 'Doom', 'Commander Keen' series 1967 Birthday John Romero, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, game designer, programmer, co-founder of id Software, games include 'Dangerous Dave', 'Quake', Wolfenstein 3D' 1961 Birthday Chris Pitman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, singer, record producer, audio programmer, multi-instrumentalist, member of Guns N' Roses, performed with ZAUM, Tool, Lusk 1955 Birthday Sammy Mitchell, U.S. programmer, Qedit/TSE/Semware 1954 Birthday Michael W. Butler, computer programmer, created TODAY program 1953 Birthday Richard Stallman, born in New York City, New York, computer programmer, software freedom activist, set up the Free Software Foundation 1949 Birthday Bob Frankston, programmer, VisiCalc 1934 Birthday Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL 1922 Birthday Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer 1833 Event Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
