deaths
January 8, 1980
John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (born 1907)
John Mauchly
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
January 8
January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year.