2005 Death Robert Moog, American Inventor 2004 Death Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91 2002 Death Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84 2002 Death Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80 2002 Death Ruth Handler, inventor, invented Barbie, dies at 85 2002 Death Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65 2000 Death Hedy Lamarr, actress/inventor, Samson and Deliah, dies at 86 1998 Death Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93 1998 Death Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93 1997 Death Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 1996 Death Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1996 Death Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 1996 Death Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91 1996 Death Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Death Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88 1996 Death Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86 1995 Death Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1995 Death Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies 1994 Death Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82 1994 Death Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75 1994 Death Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 1993 Death Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97 1993 Death Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84 1993 Death Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77 1993 Death George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71 1992 Death Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies 1992 Death Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 1992 Death Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 1992 Death Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic and Span), dies at 98 1992 Death Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98 1991 Death Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65 1991 Death George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 1991 Death Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies 1991 Death Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 1985 Death James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies 1985 Death Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies 1983 Death R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 1983 Death R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor 1982 Death Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1973 Death Laurens Hammond, American Inventor 1972 Death Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor 1969 Birthday Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system 1969 Death Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies 1968 Death Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 1967 Death Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies 1964 Death Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1962 Death Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 1961 Death Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies 1961 Death Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68 1961 Death Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87 1960 Death Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1959 Death Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies 1958 Death Charles Kettering, American Inventor 1958 Death Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1957 Death Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies 1957 Birthday Jeff Hawkins, born in Huntington, New York, founder of Palm Computing, inventor of the Palm Pilot, founder of Handspring, inventor of Trio, author of, 'On Intelligence' 1957 Death Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70 1955 Birthday Tim Bray, Canadian Inventor 1955 Birthday Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor 1954 Death Edwin Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63 1953 Birthday Andy Hertzfeld, American Inventor 1953 Death Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92 1951 Birthday Dean Kamen, born in Rockville Centre, New York, inventor, entrepreneur, created the Segway, the AutoSyringe - a mobile dialysis system, and the insulin pump 1951 Death Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 1948 Birthday Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor 1946 Birthday Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor, Jarvik 7 artificial heart 1944 Death Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies 1944 Birthday Erno Rubik, born in Budapest, inventor, Rubik's cube 1944 Death Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies 1943 Birthday Vinton Cerf, American Inventor 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 1940 Death Walter Chrysler, American Inventor 1940 Birthday Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1939 Death James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies 1936 Death Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1935 Death Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies 1934 Birthday Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer 1934 Birthday Robert Moog, American Inventor 1934 Birthday Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL 1933 Birthday Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools 1933 Birthday Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system 1931 Death Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1931 Death Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84 1931 Death Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 Death Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies 1930 Death Elmer Ambrose Sperry, U.S. inventor (gyroscope compass), dies 1930 Death C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66 1928 Birthday Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor, electron microscopist 1928 Birthday Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1928 Event Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV 1925 Birthday Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft 1925 Birthday Seymour Cray, inventor, Cray I computer 1925 Birthday Douglas Engelbart, American Inventor 1924 Birthday John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language 1924 Death Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies 1921 Death John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 1920 Death John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies 1920 Birthday Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor, Heimlich maneuver 1919 Birthday Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor 1918 Birthday Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor, Endoscope 1917 Birthday Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1915 Birthday Les Paul, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, guitarist/inventor, Les Paul guitar 1915 Birthday Les Paul, guitarist inventor, Les Paul 1913 Death Rudolf Diesel, German Inventor 1913 Birthday Maurice Wilkes, inventor, stored program concept for computers 1911 Birthday Willem J. Kolff, Dutch/U.S. internist/inventor, Artificial Kidney 1910 Birthday Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1910 Birthday Christopher Cockerell, inventor, Hovercraft 1910 Death Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies 1909 Birthday Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid, 1909 Birthday Edwin H. Land, American Inventor 1909 Birthday Jay Morris Arena, inventor and pediatrician 1908 Birthday Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960, 1907 Birthday Earl S Tupper, inventor, Tupperware 1907 Birthday Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine 1907 Birthday Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1907 Birthday Sam Green, industrialist/inventor 1906 Event U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting 1906 Death Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies 1906 Birthday Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor, electronic TV 1906 Birthday Chester F Carlson, inventor, photocopy 1905 Birthday Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, Hughes Aircraft, inventor 1905 Birthday Piet Hein, poet/inventor 1903 Death Richard J Gatling, U.S. inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84 1902 Death Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 1902 Birthday Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine 1901 Birthday Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1901 Birthday Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube 1901 Death Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1900 Birthday Fred Waring, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, musician/conductor/inventor, Waring Blender 1899 Birthday Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor, Scrabble 1899 Birthday Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1898 Death James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 1896 Death George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor (Ferris wheel), dies 1896 Birthday Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor 1896 Birthday Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor, nylon 1895 Birthday R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor, geodesic dome 1895 Birthday R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor 1895 Event British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1895 Event British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1895 Birthday Laurens Hammond, American Inventor 1892 Event 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1890 Birthday Edwin Armstrong, born in New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM 1890 Death James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor 1889 Death Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies 1889 Birthday Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV 1888 Birthday John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor, father of TV 1888 Event Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour 1888 Birthday Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft 1886 Birthday Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible 1886 Birthday Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor 1884 Death Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies 1881 Birthday Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor, large goalie glove 1881 Birthday Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932 1880 Birthday Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train 1879 Event W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage 1878 Death Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor 1878 Birthday Glenn Hammond Curtiss, U.S., inventor, hydroplane 1877 Birthday Ole Evinrude, inventor, outboard marine engine 1877 Birthday Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor 1877 Birthday Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor, elecrostatic precipitator 1876 Birthday Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor, auto self-starter 1876 Birthday Charles Kettering, American Inventor 1876 Event A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1875 Birthday Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor, Porsche, Volkswagen 1875 Death Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63 1874 Birthday Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909 1873 Birthday Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube 1872 Birthday Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock 1871 Death Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns 1870 Birthday Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor, grape-shot shells 1870 Birthday Georges Claude, inventor, neon light 1870 Birthday George Cormack, cereal inventor, Wheaties 1869 Birthday J Frank Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. 1867 Birthday John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand 1865 Death Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 1864 Death Clement Hoffman Stevens, U.S. banker/inventor/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 42 1863 Birthday Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1862 Birthday Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy 1862 Death Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 1861 Birthday Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. 1861 Birthday James A Naismith, inventor, basketball 1861 Birthday Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor 1860 Birthday Elmer A Sperry, inventor, gyrocompass 1860 Birthday Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor, electrocardiograph 1860 Birthday Charles Gordon Curtis, U.S. attorney/inventor, Curtis Turbine 1860 Birthday Herman Hollerith, inventor, 1st electric tabulating machine 1859 Birthday George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel 1859 Birthday DeWitt B Brace, inventor, spectrophotometer 1857 Birthday Maytag, inventor, washing machine 1856 Birthday Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia, electrical engineer/inventor, Tesla Coil 1855 Death August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 1855 Birthday William Seward Burroughs, New York, inventor, recording adding machine 1855 Birthday King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor 1854 Birthday George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera 1854 Birthday Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor, steam turbine 1854 Birthday Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor, linotype 1854 Birthday Dugald Clerk, inventor, engine operating the 2-stroke cycle 1854 Birthday Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone 1852 Birthday Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine 1851 Birthday Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1851 Birthday Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record 1850 Birthday Lawrence Hargrave, inventor, box kite 1849 Birthday Ambrose Fleming, inventor, diode 1848 Birthday Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer 1848 Birthday Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor, saxophone 1847 Birthday Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone 1847 Birthday Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor 1846 Birthday George Sax, inventor, saxophone 1846 Birthday William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor 1844 Birthday William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor, spoonerisms 1844 Birthday Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents 1841 Birthday Clement Ader, French inventor, 1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft 1840 Birthday Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor, automatic single-barrel rifle 1839 Birthday Chardonnet, inventor, rayon 1838 Birthday Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor, rigid dirigibles 1838 Birthday William Perkin, inventor, 1st artificial dye 1838 Birthday Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" 1837 Birthday John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, celluloid 1836 Birthday Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor, cable car 1835 Birthday Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone 1835 Birthday Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1834 Birthday Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle 1833 Death Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62 1832 Birthday William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography 1832 Birthday Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor 1832 Birthday James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor, electricstatic generator 1831 Birthday David Edward Hughes, inventor, microphone, teleprinter 1831 Birthday George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car 1831 Death Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies 1829 Death Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 1827 Birthday Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor, cordiet 1827 Death Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73 1826 Birthday Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor 1826 Birthday Ebenezer Butterick, inventor, tissue paper dress pattern 1826 Birthday Zenobe Theophile Gramme, inventor, electric motor 1825 Death Eli Whitney, American Inventor 1824 Birthday Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor, Plimsoll line for ships 1823 Birthday Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables 1821 Birthday Linus Yale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, Yale cylinder lock 1820 Birthday James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis 1819 Birthday Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter 1818 Birthday Richard Jordan Gatling, U.S., inventor, hand-cranked machine gun 1816 Birthday E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor 1814 Birthday Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor, saxophone 1814 Birthday Samuel Colt, U.S. inventor, Colt 6 shot revolver 1813 Birthday Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine 1813 Birthday Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire 1813 Birthday Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor, stenographic shorthand 1811 Birthday Issac Merrit Singer, inventor, 1st practical home sewing machine 1811 Birthday Elisha Graves Otis, inventor, safe elevator 1809 Birthday John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1809 Birthday Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, Mechanical reaper 1808 Birthday James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor 1806 Event Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood 1806 Birthday Norbert Rillieux, inventor, sugar refiner 1804 Birthday Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor 1803 Birthday John Gorrie, inventor, cold-air process of refrigeration 1803 Birthday John Ericsson, U.S., inventor, screw propeller, shipbuilder-USS Monitor 1800 Birthday Charles Goodyear, inventor, vulcanization process for rubber 1800 Birthday James Bogardus, U.S. inventor/builder, made cast-iron buildings 1798 Death John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 1797 Birthday Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism 1794 Death Marquis de Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) , philosopher, mathematician, early political scientist and inventor of the Condorcet method, dies 1792 Birthday Charles Babbage, English inventor, calculating machine 1791 Birthday Samuel Finley Breece Morse, U.S. painter/inventor, telegraph 1790 Birthday August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip 1790 Birthday Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor 1790 Death Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84 1790 Event Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor 1785 Event British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle 1783 Birthday John Heathcoat, inventor, lace-making machinery 1781 Birthday David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor, kaleidoscope 1781 Birthday George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive 1781 Birthday Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor, stethoscope 1780 Birthday August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway 1779 Birthday Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor, slide rule, pocket chessboard 1778 Death James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies 1771 Birthday Alois Senefelder, inventor, lithography 1771 Birthday Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor, steam locomotive 1770 Birthday Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic 1769 Birthday Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor 1765 Birthday Eli Whitney, inventor, Cotton Gin 1765 Birthday Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography 1761 Birthday Henry Scrapnel, English inventor, shrapnel shell 1761 Death Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 1755 Birthday Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil 1753 Birthday Samuel Crompton, English inventor, mule-jenny spinning machine 1752 Birthday Nicolas Appert, inventor, food canning, bouillon tablet 1748 Death Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55 1745 Birthday Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor, battery 1744 Death John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies 1743 Birthday Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom 1743 Birthday John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton 1741 Birthday Charles Willson Peale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, George Washington 1738 Birthday Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine 1736 Birthday James Watt, Scotland, inventor, steam engine 1732 Birthday Richard Arkwright, inventor, spinning frame 1730 Death Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 1723 Death Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 1718 Birthday John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor, sandwich 1712 Death Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 1706 Birthday John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor 1706 Birthday Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor 1701 Birthday Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor, centigrade temp scale 1695 Death Christiaen Huygens, inventor/astronomer, dies at 66 1695 Death Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 1686 Birthday Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor, thermometer 1682 Birthday John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1680 Death Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies 1655 Birthday Johann Christoph Denner, inventor, clarinet 1637 Birthday John van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor, fire extinguisher 1633 Death Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1619 Death John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried 1617 Death John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1609 Death Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 1602 Birthday Otto von Guericke, inventor, air pump 1601 Birthday Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor, magic lantern 1574 Birthday William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule 1468 Death John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
