Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, “A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.”

9 December 1906

Born on the same birth date (9 December 1906): Freddy Martin

Born on the same birth day (9 December): André Randall • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi • Choi Min-ho • Donald Byrd • Geoff Barrow • Gerald Henderson Jr. • John Malkovich • Joseph Pilates • Leon Hall • Paul Landers • Peter O'Mara • Raphaël Rouquier • Richard Lovelace (poet) • Ryder Hesjedal • Saima Wazed

Born in the same month (December 1906): Alziro Bergonzo • Carol Reed • Erika Fuchs • Ernst Ruska • Fernando Lopes-Graça • Franz Waxman • Freddy Martin • Harold Adamson • Laurens van der Post • Leonid Brezhnev • Lew Grade • Peter Carl Goldmark • Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark • Russell C. Newhouse