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John Mauchly
John Mauchly Born: 1907Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio ENIAC data translating device—Engineers Eckert and Mauchly invented ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), the first…John Thomas
John Thomas Born: 1907 Birthplace: East St. Louis, Illinois Fiberglass—In the 1930s, John Thomas, Games Slayter, and Dale Kleist developed the…John Campbell
John CampbellBorn: Apr. 8, 1955Harness racing 5-time winner of Hambletonian (1987,88,90,95,98); 3-time Driver of Year; first driver to go over $100 million in career winnings.Earl CampbellA…John Banville
John Banville is an Irish writer whose best-known novel is The Sea, the 2005 winner of the Man Booker Prize. Under the name Benjamin Black he also has written many noir crime novels, including…John Banner
Name at birth: Johann BannerJohn Banner, a Jew, fled his native Austria in 1938 after the Nazi Anschluss. Years later he got his revenge by playing the buffoonish German sergeant Hans Schultz in the…John Brown
John Brown is a famous figure in the fight over slavery that led up to the American Civil War. His murderous raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed the depth of the division between slave owners and…John Boehner
John Boehner was a longtime Congressman from Ohio who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2010 until his sudden resignation in October of 2015. A lifelong Ohioan, John…John Cage
John Cage is the 20th century conceptual artist who famously "composed" the piano piece titled 4' 33" (1952), which consists of the pianist(s) sitting at a piano and not playing for exactly four…John Cabot
Name at birth: Giovanni CabotoFew hard facts are known about John Cabot, but he is historically important because his explorations were the basis for England's early claims on North America. By all…John Cusack
John Cusack proved himself to be a reliable and unconventional leading man in films like The Grifters (1990), Being John Malkovich (1999, also starring Cameron Diaz) and High Fidelity (2000, with…Trending
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