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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | May 14, 1984 | ||
