Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory". He was the first to describe the Boolean gates that are essential to all digital electronic circuits, and he built the first machine learning device, thus founding the field of artificial intelligence. He is credited alongside George Boole for laying the foundations of the Information Age.

30 April 1916

Born on the same birth date (30 April 1916): Paul Kuusberg • Robert Shaw (conductor)

Born on the same birth day (30 April): Ana de Armas • Charles Beetham • Daniel Wagon • Dianna Agron • Francesco Primaticcio • Frank-Michael Marczewski • François Louis, Prince of Conti • François de Laval • Jacques Audiard • Karl Meiler • Lee Roache • Liu Xijun • Mac DeMarco • Marina Tomić • Martin Fuksa • Orlando Sirola • Robert Shaw (conductor) • Tatjana Hüfner • Troy Williamson

Born in the same month (April 1916): A. Thiagarajah • Alfred S. Bloomingdale • Behçet Necatigil • Don Willesee • Enos Slaughter • Eyvind Earle • Ferruccio Lamborghini • Helene Hanff • Ivo Lola Ribar • Lee Jung-seob • Lou Thesz • Louiguy • Nasiba Zeynalova • Robert Shaw (conductor) • Sheila May Edmonds • Sinah Estelle Kelley • Sirimavo Bandaranaike • Yehudi Menuhin • Yiannis Moralis