Adele Goldstine

Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions. ^{Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer (d. 1964)}

21 December 1920

Born on the same birth date (21 December 1920): Alicia Alonso

Born on the same birth day (21 December): Alicia Alonso • Anthony Powell • Arnošt Lustig • Benjamin Schmolck • Betty Wright • Doug Walters • Edward Hoagland • Florence Griffith Joyner • Frank Patrick (ice hockey) • John Bradstreet • Karrie Webb • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Madelyn Cline • Natalie Grant • Nic Maddinson • Otis (wrestler) • Rebecca West • Roger Williams • Stela Popescu • Steven Yeun • Tom Payne (actor) • Wafic Saïd

Born in the same month (December 1920): Alicia Alonso • Bruce Hobbs • Bruce McCarty • Clarice Lispector • Denis Jenkinson • Fiorenzo Magni • Frederick Rotimi Williams • Gamal al-Banna • Kenneth E. Iverson • Kurt Schaffenberger • Little Jimmy Dickens • Nadir Afonso • Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Reginald Rose • Rex Allen