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URL. www.famousbirthdays.com. Launched. 1996 ; 28 years ago (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [ 1 ] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ][ 3 ]
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his ...
2015 (Friday) May 15 is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 230 days remain until the end of the year. "15th of May" redirects here. For the city in Egypt, see 15th of May (city).
Scott Flansburg (born December 28, 1963) is an American dubbed "The Human Calculator" and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for speed of mental calculation. He is the annual host and ambassador for The National Counting Bee, a math educator, and media personality. He has published the books Math Magic and Math Magic for Your Kids.
Isaac Barrow. Succeeded by. William Whiston. Signature. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the ...
Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Russia – electron cooling, co-inventor of collider. Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified steam engine) Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner. Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe machine, first usable iron railroad spike.
2016 (Thursday) 2015 (Wednesday) January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 358 days remain until the end of the year (359 in leap years).
Ab urbe condita (Latin: [ab ˈʊrbɛ ˈkɔndɪtaː]; 'from the founding of the City '), or anno urbis conditae (Latin: [ˈannoː ˈʊrbɪs ˈkɔndɪtae̯]; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is an expression used in ...