Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Karlheinz Brandenburg |
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Birthdate | June 20, 1954 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 70 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Engineer |
Karlheinz Brandenburg is best known as Engineer who has born on June 20, 1954 in Germany. Currently, Karlheinz Brandenburg is 70 years, 4 months and 12 days old. Karlheinz Brandenburg will celebrate 71st birthday on Friday, 20th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Karlheinz Brandenburg upcoming birthday.
Known best for his role in developing the MP3 audio format, this German-born sound engineer was the 2004 recipient of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. His other honors include the Audio Engineering Society's Silver Medal and Board of Governors Award.
He earned degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from Erlangen University and went on to receive a doctorate in the former field from Friedrich-Alexander University.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he lived in the United States and worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories. He later returned to his native Germany and taught at both the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Technical University of Ilmenau.
He was born and raised in Erlangen, Germany.
He and Canadian composer Paul Hoffert both helped develop the MP3 format.
Karlheinz Brandenburg is 70 years old today.
Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20, 1954 in Germany.
Karlheinz Brandenburg zodiac sign is Gemini.
Karlheinz Brandenburg was best known as Engineer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Karlheinz Brandenburg's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. |
1973 | Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
1973 | Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. |
1975 | The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". |
1979 | ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. |
1982 | The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. |
1982 | The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. |
1988 | Haitian President Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant general Henri Namphy. |
1990 | Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
1990 | The 7.4 Mw Manjil-Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000-50,000, and injuring 60,000-105,000. |
1991 | The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. |
1994 | The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. |
2003 | The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
2019 | Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries. |
1987 | The birth of Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner |
1989 | The birth of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor |
1989 | The birth of Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Terrelle Pryor, American football player |
1990 | The birth of DeQuan Jones, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Leonard Williams, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player |
1997 | The birth of Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist |
2003 | The birth of Hans Niemann, American chess player |
2004 | The death of Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950) |
2005 | The death of Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929) |
2005 | The death of Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943) |
2010 | The death of Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
2011 | The death of Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977) |
2012 | The death of Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States. (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921) |
2012 | The death of Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Prodigy, American music artist (b. 1974) |
2022 | The death of Caleb Swanigan, American NBA player. (b. 1997) |
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