Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
17 August 1936
Born on the same birth date (17 August 1936): Seamus Mallon
Born on the same birth day (17 August): Andrés Pastrana Arango • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. • Guillermo Vilas • João Donato • Kelvin Mercer • Leopold Nowak • Mark Felt • Mike Lewis (musician) • Rachel Hurd-Wood • Ron Henry • Roy Tattersall • Shaun Rehn • William Gallas • Øyvind Leonhardsen
Born in the same month (August 1936): Anita Gillette • Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. • August 2 • Bill Monbouquette • Chuck Brown • Chuck Brown • Frank Howard (baseball) • Joel Kovel • Jonathan D. Spence • Julián Javier • Kenny Guinn • Malene Schwartz • Rita Shane • Rudy Lewis • Seamus Mallon • Vladimir Orlov (author) • W. D. Hamilton • Yves Saint Laurent (designer)