Tom Kilburn CBE FREng. 11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001
Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Hilary J. Kahn · Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society · 2003
Tom Kilburn was one of the early pioneers of the stored-program computer. He was born on 11 August 1921 in Earlseaton near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was John William Kilburn, who was initially a statistical clerk and then a company secretary.