Updated at November 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Hamming |
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Birthdate | February 11, 1915 |
Birth Place | Chicago, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Computer Scientist |
Richard Hamming is best known as Computer Scientist who has born on February 11, 1915 in Chicago, IL. Currently, Richard Hamming is 109 years, 9 months and 4 days old. Richard Hamming will celebrate 110th birthday on Tuesday, 11th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Hamming upcoming birthday.
Computer pioneer who discovered a way for machines to correct their own errors. His groundbreaking work led the way to technologies like modems and compact discs.
He had prodigious talent for mathematics from his grade school days, and after a Ph.D. in math he joined the Manhattan Project, working on its cutting-edge atom bomb research during World War II.
His methods for finding and correcting single errors in large strings of data became known as Hamming Codes and was first used in digital communication equipment at Bell Labs.
He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, his parents Richard J Hamming and Mabel G Redfield.
He worked with Claude Shannon and several other prominent mathematicians on the Manhattan Project, who together called themselves The Young Turks.
Richard Hamming is 109 years old today.
Richard Hamming was born on February 11, 1915 in Chicago, IL.
Richard Hamming zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Richard Hamming was best known as Computer Scientist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Hamming's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1990 | Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. |
1990 | Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title. |
1997 | Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. |
1999 | Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231. |
2001 | A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star. |
2008 | Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack. |
2011 | Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 17 days of protests. |
2013 | The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age. |
2013 | Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff. |
2014 | A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people. |
2015 | A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women. |
2016 | A man shoots seven people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia. |
2017 | North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan. |
2018 | Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors. |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2. |
1987 | The birth of Ellen van Dijk, Dutch cyclist |
1987 | The birth of Brian Matusz, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Jan Smeekens, Dutch speed skater |
1988 | The birth of Vlad Moldoveanu, Romanian basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer |
1991 | The birth of Nikola Mirotic, Spanish basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Lasse Norman Hansen, Danish track and road cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Taylor Lautner, American actor |
1993 | The birth of Ben McLemore, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Dansby Swanson, American baseball player |
1995 | The birth of Milan Å kriniar, Slovak footballer |
1996 | The birth of Daniil Medvedev, Russian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Jonathan Tah, German footballer |
1997 | The birth of Hubert Hurkacz, Polish tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Khalid, American singer and songwriter |
2013 | The death of Rick Huxley, English bass player (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Tito Canepa, Dominican-American painter (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Fernando González Pacheco, Colombian journalist and actor (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Roger Hanin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Bob Simon, American journalist (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1971) |
2016 | The death of Zeng Xuelin, Thai-Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2017 | The death of Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1990) |
2017 | The death of Jaap Rijks, Dutch Olympian (b. 1919) |
2018 | The death of Vic Damone, American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human-rights lawyer and social activist (b. 1952) |
2018 | The death of Jan Maxwell, American stage and television actress (b. 1956) |
2018 | The death of Qazi Wajid, Pakistani drama actor, writer and artist (b. 1930) |
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