Birthdays of Tech History : Day in Tech History

Happy Birthday. Technology has shaped our lives in so many ways. The people behind the technology have worked in creating the items we use everyday. From mathmatical formulas, to inventions and creations of languages we didn’t know we could learn.

This is a list of people who have shaped technology for years. In most cases I have found birthdays. There is some missing information that I hope people can help fill in. Of course, if the person has passed, that will be noted as well.

This is also a working list. If you see names that should be on this list, let me know. A working copy can be found on this Google Document.

So without further ado – Here is your list of Technology birthdays.

First	Last	Noted for	born	died
Douglas	Adams	Hitchhikers Guideto the Galaxy	March 11, 1952	May 11, 2001
Jay	Adelson	Revision3	September 7, 1970
Beny	Alagem	Founder of Packard Bell	*1953
Al	Alcorn	Pong	January 1, 1948
Syed	Ali	CEO Cavium Networks
Paul	Allen	Microsoft	January 21, 1953
Gil	Amelio	Apple CEO	March 1, 1943
Bill	Amend	Fox Trot	*September 20
Tom	Anderson	MySpace	November 8, 1970
Marc	Andreessen	Mosaic	July 9, 1971
Tim	Armstrong	AOL CEO
Michael	Arrington	TechCrunch, VC	March 13, 1970
John Vincent	Atanasoff	Atanasoff-Berry Computer	October 4, 1903	June 15, 1995
Ralph	Baer	Father of Video Games	March 8, 1922
Steve	Ballmer	Microsoft	March 24, 1956
Jim	Balsillie	Research in Motion	March 3, 1961
Jorn	Barger	Invented the Blog	,1953
Andrew	Baron	Rocketboom	March 31, 1980
Andy	Bechtolsheim	Sun Microsystems	September 30, 1955
Steven	Bellovin	USENET
Tim	Berners-Lee	World Wide Web	June 8, 1955
George	Boole	Invented Boolean Logic (basis to moderncomputer logic)	November 2, 1815	December 8, 1864
Len	Bosack	Cisco	*1952
Tim	Bray	Open Text Corporation	June 21, 1955
Andrew	Breitbart	Editor: Drudge Report, Researcher: Huffington Post	February 1, 1969	March 1, 2012
Dan	Bricklin	Visicalc – Father of the Spreadsheet	July 16, 1951
Sergey	Brin	Google	August 21, 1973
Chris	Brogan	Socail Media Author	April 8, 1970
Rod	Canion	Compaq	January 19, 1945
Michael	Capellas	Compaq CEO	September 19, 1955
Steve	Case	AOL Chairman	September 21, 1958
Vinton	Cerf	Fathers of the Internet	June 23, 1943
C.C.	Chapman	Podsafe Music Network
Steve	Chen	YouTube	*August 1978
James	Clark	Mosaic / Netscape	March 23, 1944
Westley A	Clark	LINC	*1927
Todd	Cochrane	RawVoice, First book on Podcasting	*June, 1964
John	Cocke	Father of RISC	May 30, 1925	July 16, 2002
Ed	Colligan	CEO Palm, Handspring	March 4, 1961
Martin	Cooper	Invented the Cell Phone	December 26, 1928
Dick	Costolo	Twitter	September 10, 1963
Seymour	Cray	Cray Computer	September 28, 1925	October 5, 1996
Mark	Cuban	HDNet	July 31, 1958
Adam	Curry	Podcasting Pioneer	September 3, 1064
Monte	Davidoff	Altair BASIC floating-point arithmetic	*1956
Michael	Dell	Dell Computer	February 23, 1965
Robert	Dennard	Inventor DRAM	September 5, 1932
Jack	Dorsey	Twitter	November 19, 1976
Donna	Dubinsky	co-founder of Handspring	July 4, 1955
John C.	Dvorak	PC Columnist	April 5, 1952
Roland	Dyroff	SUSE Linux
J Presper	Eckert	Built ENIAC	April 9, 1919	June 3, 1995
Thomas	Edison	Light Bulb, Phonograph	February 11, 1847	October 18, 1931
Jim Tice	Ellis	Usenet	May 6, 1956	June 28, 2001
Larry	Ellison	Oracle	August 17, 1944
Douglas	Engelbart	Invented the Computer Mouse	January 30, 1925	July 3, 2013
Gordon	Eubanks	Symantec	November 7, 1946
Justine	Ezarik	Lifecaster	March 20, 1984
Federico	Faggin	Intel 4004 designer	December 1, 1941
Dennis	Fairclough	Novell Data Systems
Shawn	Fanning	Napster	November 22, 1980
Dan	Farmer	SATAN Tool	April 5, 1962
Thomas	Fehr	SUSE Linux
David	Filo	Yahoo	April 20, 1966
Brad	Fitzpatrick	LiveJournal	February 5, 1980
Bob	Frankston	Visicalc	June 14, 1949
Janus	Friis	Skype	June 26, 1976
Steve	Garfield	First Video Blogger	*1957
Bill	Gates	Microsoft	October 28, 1955
Louis	Gerstner	IBM	March 1, 1942
Noah	Glass	Twitter
Gaston	Gonnet	Open Text Corporation
Alexander	Graham Bell	Invented Telephone	March 3,1847	August 2, 1922
Wayne	Green	80 Micro, Byte Magazine	September 3, 1922	September 13, 2013
Barry	Greenstein	Symantec	December 30, 1954
Jacques Salomon	Hadamard	Mathmatician	December 8, 1865	October 17, 1963
Ben	Hammersley	First Internet Reporter, coined”Podcast”	April 3, 1976
Reed	Hastings	Netflix	October 8, 1960
Steven	Hawking	Theoretical physics	January 8, 1942
Jeff	Hawkins	Founder of Palm	June 1, 1957
Gary	Hendrix	Symantec
Bill	Hewlett	HP	May 20, 1913	January 12, 2001
Marcian Edward	Hoff Jr.	Inventor of the microprocessor	October 28, 1937
Ried	Hoffman	LinkedIn	August 5, 1967
Jen-Hsun	Huang	co-founder Nvidia	February 17, 1963
Edwin	Hubble	Hubble Telescope	November 20, 1889	September 28, 1953
Arianna	Huffington	Huffington Post	July 15, 1950
Mark	Hurd	Oracle	January 1, 1957
Chad	Hurley	YouTube	January 1, 1977
Carl	Icahn	Investor	February 16, 1936
Fredrik	Idestam	Nokia	October 28, 1838	April 8, 1916
Steve	Jobs	Apple, NeXT, Pixar	February 24, 1955	October 5, 2011
Reynold	Johnson	RAMAC	July 16, 1906	September 15, 1998
Bill	Joy	Sun Microsystems	November 8, 1954
Bob	Kahn	Invented TCPIP	December 23, 1938
Dean	Kamen	Segway	April 5, 1951
Justine	Kan	Lifecaster, Justin.tv	*1984
Phillip	Katz	PKWare	November 3, 1962	April 14, 2000
Guy	Kawasaki	VC and Former Apple Employee	August 30, 1954
Brian	Kernighan	UNIX co-creator	*January 1942
Vinod	Khosla	Sun Microsystems	January 28, 1955
Gary	Kildall	Created CP/M	May 19, 1942	July 11, 1994
Kane	Kramer	Inventor of the MP3 Player (Digital AudioPlayer)	April 23, 1956
Stanley	Kubrick	Film Director: 2001	July 26, 1928	March 7, 1999
Sarah	Lane	The Screen Savers	October 12, 1976
Leo	Laporte	Technology broadcaster	November 29, 1956
Christopher	Latham Sholes	QWERTY Keyboard	February 14, 1819	February 17, 1890
Mike	Lazaridis	Research in Motion	March 14, 1961
Sandy	Lerner	Cisco	*1952
Cali	Lewis	GeekBeat.TV	January 25, 1981
Jim	Louderback	Revision3	*1961
Steve	Madere	Deja News (Google Groups)
Theodore	Maiman	Invented the Laser	July 11, 1927	May 5, 2007
Drew	Major	Novell Data Systems	June 17, 1956
Louis-Jacques-	Mandé Daguerre	Invented Photograph	November 18, 1787	July 10, 1851
Hubert	Mantel	SUSE Linux
Paul	Maritz	VMWare	*1955
James	Martin	The Wired Society	1933	June 24, 2013
John	Mauchly	Built ENIAC	August 30, 1907	January 8, 1980
Stanley	Mazor	Intel 4004 designer	October 22, 1941
ken	McCarthy	Internet pioneer	September 20, 1959
Douglas	Mcllroy	UNIX co-creator	*1932
Scott	McNealy	Sun Microsystems	November 13, 1954
Leo	Mechelin	Nokia	November 24, 1839	January 26, 1914
Dmitri	Mendeleev	Created Periodic Table of Elements	February 8, 1834	February 2, 1907
Kevin	Mitnick	Hacker	August 6, 1963
Charles	Molnar	LINC	*1935	*1996
Gordon	Moore	co-founder Intel	March 3, 1929
Samuel	Morse	Telegraph	April 27, 1791	April 2, 1872
Walt	Mossberg	Journalist	March 27, 1947
Matt	Mullenweg	WordPress	January 11, 1984
Nicholas	Negroponte	OLPC, MIT’s Technology Lab	December 1, 1943
Raymond	Noorda	Novell CEO	June 19, 1924	October 9, 2006
William Charles	Norris	Control Data Corporation CEO	July 14, 1911	August 21, 2006
Kevin	Norton	The Screen Savers, Tekzilla	June 26, 1970
Peter	Norton	Norton Antivirus	November 14, 1943
Robert	Noyce	co-founder Intel	December 12, 1927
Wilgodt	Odhner	Invented mechanical calculator	August 10, 1845	September 15, 1905
Scott	Oki	Built Microsoft International	October 5, 1948
Ken	Olsen	DEC	February 20, 1926	February 6, 2011
Adam	Osborne	Osborne Computers	March 6, 1939	March 18, 2003
Joe	Ossanna	UNIX co-creator	December 10, 1928	November 28, 1977
David	Packard	HP	September 7, 1912	March 26, 1996
Larry	Page	Google	March 26, 1973
Tom	Phillips	Microsoft, Amazon	*1959	December 3, 2011
Chris	Pirillo	Call for Help, Pirillo.com	July 26, 1973
Robert	Pittman	Founder of MTV, AOL CEO	December 28, 1953
David	Prager	Revision3	January 17, 1977
Robert	Price	Control Data Corporation CEO	September 26, 1930
James	Ready	Pioneer Real-time embedded OperatingSystem
Jennifer	Ringley	Lifecaster, Jennicam	August 10, 1976
Dennis	Ritchie	UNIX, C Programming Language	September 9, 1941	October 12, 2011
Ed	Roberts	Father of PC	September 13, 1941	April 1, 2010
Lawrence	Roberts	Developer of Internet	*1937
Michael	Robertson	Linspire	*1967
kevin	rose	DIGG	February 21, 1977
Andrew	Rubin	Creator of Android OS
Carl	Sagan	Astronomer	November 9, 1934	December 20, 1996
Jerry	Sanders	co-founder AMD	September 12, 1936
Steven	Sasson	Invented the Digital Camera	July 4, 1950
Eric	Schmidt	Google	April 27, 1955
Robert	Scoble	Video blogger	January 18, 1965
John	Sculley	Apple President	April 16, 1939
Alexander	Shafto Douglas	Created first Computer gama OXO	May 21, 1921	April 29, 2010
Masatoshi	Shima	Intel 4004 designer	August 22, 1943
Alan	Shugart	Invented Floppy Disk	September 27, 1930	December 12, 2006
Sir Clive	Sinclair	Sinclair Radionics	July 30, 1940
Elmer Ambrose	Sperry	Gyrocompass Inventor	October 12, 1860	June 16, 1930
Richard	Stallman	GNU Project	March 16, 1953
Biz	Stone	Twitter	March 10, 1974
Aaron	Swartz	RSS Feeds	November 8, 1986	January 12, 2013
Henn	Tan	Invented the Thumb Drive	Somtime in the 1950’s
Charles	Tandy	Tandy Computers	May 15, 1918	November 4, 1978
Andrew	Tanenbaum	Author of MINIX	March 16, 1944
Robert William	Taylor	Internet pioneer	*1932
Nikola	Tesla	Pioneer of Technology	July 10, 1890	January 7, 1943
Ken	Thompson	UNIX co-creator	February 4, 1943
Ray	Tomlinson	Created Email	*1941
Linus	Torvalds	Created Linux OS	December 28, 1969
Jack	Tramiel	Commodore, Atari	December 13, 1928
James	Treybig	Founder Tandem Computers
Tom	Truscott	Usenet
Alan	Turing	Turing Machine	June 23, 1912	June 7, 1954
Edwin	Turney	co-founder AMD	March 26, 1929
Masayuki	Uemura	Nintendo Entertainment Center	June 20, 1943
Guido	van Rossum	Python	January 31, 1956
Gary	Vaynerchuck	Video Podcaster, Social Media	November 14, 1975
Wietse	Venema	SATAN Tool	May 4, 1905
Jimmy	Wales	Wikipedia	August 7, 1966
Bob	Wallace	Creator of Quicksoft	May 29, 1949	September 20, 2002
An	Wang	Wang Laboratories	February 7, 1920	March 24, 1990
Thomas A	Watson	Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell	January 18,1854	December 13, 1934
Thomas J	Watson	IBM President (1914-1956)	February 17, 1874	June 19, 1956
Thomas J	Watson Jr	IBM President (1952-1971)	January 14, 1914	December 31, 1993
Bill	Watterson	Calvin and Hobbes	July 5, 1958
Ronald	Wayne	Apple Founder	May 17, 1934
Orson	Welles	War of the Worlds	May 6, 1937	October 10, 1985
Aled	Williams	Coined term “Podcasting”
Evan	Williams	Twitter	March 31, 1972
Jake	Winebaum	FamilyPC Magazine	*1959
Anthony	Wood	Inventor PVR – Roku	Unknown
Steve	Wozniak	Apple	August 11, 1950
Fusajiro	Yamauchi	Nintendo Founder	November 22, 1859	January, 1940
Jerry	Yang	Yahoo	November 6, 1968
Gunpei	Yokoi	Nintendo Game Boy	September 10, 1941	October 4, 1997
Carl	Zeiss	Maker of Optical Instruments	September 11, 1816	December 3, 1888
Niklas	Zennstrom	Skype	February 16, 1966
Mark	Zuckerberg	Facebook	May 14, 1984