Person    | Male  Born 30/7/1940  Died 16/9/2021

Sir Clive Sinclair

Categories: Science

Inventor: pocket calculator, computers and . . . . the C5.

Born as Clive Marles Sinclair on 30 July 1940 near Richmond-upon-Thames. He was the eldest of the three children of George William Carter Sinclair (1911-1995) and Thora Edith Ella Sinclair née Marles (b.1916). He died, aged 81 years, on 16 September 2021 in London.

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