Jeff Bezos12 January 1964, American
Founder of Amazon.com
Howard Hughes24 December 1905, American
Entrepreneur, Investor
Buzz Aldrin20 January 1930, American
American engineer
John DeLorean06 January 1925, American
Inventor, Engineer
Linus Torvalds28 December 1969, Finnish, American
Software Engineer
James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
David Baszucki20 January 1963, Canadian
Entrepreneur
John Bradfield26 December 1867, Australian
Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Martin Birch27 December 1948, British
Sound Engineer
Carol Vorderman24 December 1960, British
Television presenter, Journalist, Engineer
Atticus Ross16 January 1968, British
Musician
Bjarne Stroustrup30 December 1950, Danish
Computer scientist, Engineer, Scientist,
Owsley Stanley19 January 1935, American
Chemist, Engineer, Audio engineer
Thomas Massie13 January 1971, American
Inventor
Alfredo Ferrari19 January 1932, Italian
Engineer
Bob Kahn23 December 1938, American
Electrical engineer
Tony Hoare11 January 1934, British
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Nevil Shute17 January 1899, British
Novelist
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800, American
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Scotty Moore27 December 1931, American
Guitarist, Audio engineer
Don Norman25 December 1935, American
Engineer, Computer scientist, Psychologist, Writer
Phil Ramone05 January 1934, American, South African
Record producer, Audio engineer, Composer, Music
Wael Ghonim23 December 1980, Egyptian, American
Computer Engineer
Joseph M. Juran24 December 1904, Romanian, American
Engineer
Robin Guthrie04 January 1962, Scottish
Record producer, Composer, Audio engineer,
George Cayley27 December 1773, British
Engineer
Krishna Bharat07 January 1970, American
computer scientist, engineer
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar01 January 1943, Indian
Engineer, Scientist
Sandford Fleming07 January 1827, Canadian, Scottish
Engineer
John Garand01 January 1888, Canadian, American
Designer
Zora Arkus-Duntov25 December 1909, Belgian, American
Engineer, Racecar driver
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Hugh Lofting14 January 1886, British
Author
Bruce Fairbairn30 December 1949, Canadian
Musician, Engineer, Audio engineer, Trumpeter,
Ray Dolby18 January 1933, American
Engineer
Gustave Whitehead01 January 1874, German, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Rodney Brooks30 December 1954, Australian, American
Roboticist
Andrew Coyne23 December 1960, Canadian
Columnist, Editor
Andy Johns01 January 1952, British
Engineer, Audio engineer, Record producer,
Franz Josef Popp14 January 1886, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Leroy Grumman04 January 1895, American
Engineer
David Braben02 January 1964, British
Entrepreneur, Programmer, Engineer, Game designer
Madman Muntz03 January 1914, American
Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Electrical engineer,
Allan Alcorn01 January 1948, American
Computer scientist, Engineer
Kevin A. Lynch07 January 1918, American
architect, university teacher
Abraham-Louis Breguet10 January 1747, French
Horologist
Étienne Lenoir12 January 1822, Belgian, French, Luxembourgian
Inventor, Engineer
C. H. Douglas20 January 1879, British
Engineer
Vasily Degtyaryov02 January 1880, Russian
Russian engineer
Sergei Avdeyev01 January 1956, Russian
Engineer, Astronaut
Camille Jordan05 January 1838, French
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor
Thomas Sopwith18 January 1888, British
Aircraft designer
Alexander Parkes29 December 1813, British
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Agner Krarup Erlang01 January 1878, Danish
Mathematician, Engineer, Statistician
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu14 January 1952, Romanian
Prime Minister
Robert Scoble18 January 1965, American
Blogger, Writer, Computer scientist, Podcaster
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo28 December 1852, Spanish
Engineer
Euclides da Cunha20 January 1866, Brazilian
Journalist
Laurens Hammond11 January 1895, American
Engineer
Ivan A. Getting18 January 1912, American
Physicist
Samuel Bentham11 January 1757, British
Engineer
Charles Ellet Jr.01 January 1810, American
Civil Engineer
Dante Giacosa03 January 1905, Italian
Automobile designer
Vasily Mishin18 January 1917, Russian
Engineer
Wilhelm Bauer23 December 1822, German
Inventor
George W. Melville10 January 1841, American
Engineer
John Milne30 December 1850, British
Geologist
Alastair Pilkington07 January 1920, British
Engineer
Sergey Korolyov12 January 1907, Russian
Engineer
Martin Cooper26 December 1928, American
Engineer
Louis Charles Breguet02 January 1880, French
Aircraft designer
Victor Scheinman28 December 1942, American
Designer
William Hayward Pickering24 December 1910, New Zealander
Engineer and physicist
William T. Piper08 January 1881, American
Businessman
Yvonne Brill30 December 1924, American
Rocket scientist
Herman Frasch25 December 1851, German, American
Chemist
T. Claude Ryan03 January 1898, Irish, American
Aviator
Carl Humann04 January 1839, German
Engineer
Henning Schmitz26 December 1953, German
Audio engineer
Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet15 January 1716, French
Engineer
Jack Kinzler09 January 1920, American
Engineer
Harold Rugg17 January 1886, American
Educational Reformer
Henryk Dembiński16 January 1791, Polish
Engineer
Kurt Hohenemser03 January 1906, German, American
Engineer
Albert H. Taylor01 January 1879, American
Electrical Engineer
Tim Shaw15 January 1974, British
Radio host
David Wilkinson05 January 1771, American
Engineer
Oleg Ivanovsky18 January 1922, Russian
Engineer
Joseph Strauss09 January 1870, American
Engineer
Henri G. Busignies29 December 1905, French
Electrical engineer
Jerry Ross20 January 1948, American
Air engineer
Henri-Émile Bazin10 January 1829, French
Engineer
Arthur Fleming16 January 1881, British
Engineer
Yang Xiaobo31 December 1963, Chinese
Structural Engineer
Nikolai Zhukovsky17 January 1847, Russian
Scientist, Mathematician, Engineer