Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gordon Gould |
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Birthdate | July 17, 1920 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 104 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Inventor |
Gordon Gould is best known as Inventor who has born on July 17, 1920 in New York City, NY. Currently, Gordon Gould is 104 years, 3 months and 16 days old. Gordon Gould will celebrate 105th birthday on Thursday, 17th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Gordon Gould upcoming birthday.
Scientist who fought for over thirty-eight years for recognition and credit for inventing the laser. He was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.
Encouraged by his mother, he grew up learning about the great inventors of the day.
He came up with the acronym for 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' - or LASER.
He was in a Marxist group with his first wife Glen Fulwider, which denied him security clearances on some top-secret military work involving his laser.
While other children looked up to movie and sports stars, he idolized Thomas Edison.
Gordon Gould is 104 years old today.
Gordon Gould was born on July 17, 1920 in New York City, NY.
Gordon Gould zodiac sign is Cancer.
Gordon Gould was best known as Inventor.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gordon Gould's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21. |
1985 | Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany). |
1989 | First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. |
1989 | Holy See-Poland relations are restored. |
1996 | TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. |
1998 | The 7.0 Mw  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured. |
1998 | A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. |
2000 | During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people. |
2001 | Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash. |
2006 | The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured. |
2007 | TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo-Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people. |
2014 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed. |
2014 | A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries. |
2015 | At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq. |
2018 | Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter. |
1978 | The birth of Jason Jennings, American baseball player |
1979 | The birth of Mike Vogel, American actor |
1980 | The birth of Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer |
1980 | The birth of Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian and writer |
1980 | The birth of Ryan Miller, American ice hockey player |
1981 | The birth of Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner |
1982 | The birth of Omari Banks, Anguillan cricketer |
1983 | The birth of Adam Lind, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player |
1985 | The birth of Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer |
1986 | The birth of DeAngelo Smith, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer |
1994 | The birth of Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter |
1998 | The birth of Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower |
2014 | The death of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims: Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957) Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976) Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954) Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952) |
Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957) | The death of |
Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976) | The death of |
Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954) | The death of |
Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952) | The death of |
2014 | The death of Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989) |
2015 | The death of Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Van Miller, American sportscaster (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of John Taylor, English pianist and educator (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of John Lewis, American Politician and Civil Rights Leader. (b. 1940) |
2020 | The death of Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (b. 2000) |
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