Konrad Zuse's Death
Born (Birthday) June 22, 1910
Death Date December 18, 1995
Age of Death 85 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Place of Death Hünfeld, Germany
Place of Burial Neuer Friedhof Hünfeld, Hünfeld, Germany
Profession Engineer
The engineer Konrad Zuse died at the age of 85. Here is all you want to know and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
German civil engineer and computer scientist who built the world’s first programmable computer, the Z4, in 1941. His work went unnoticed in the UK and US due to WWII but IBM optioned his patents after the war in 1946.
He intended to study engineering and architecture in college, but he found that the subjects were too boring for him.
In addition to building computer hardware, he came up with the foundations of programming language.
How did Konrad Zuse die?
Zuse died on 18 December 1995 in Hünfeld, Hesse (near Fulda) from heart failure.
Quotes
""It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
""You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer."
""I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment."