Hedy Lamarr

Profession: Actress and Inventor

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Why Famous: A contract star of MGM's Golden Age (Ecstasy, Samson & Delilah).

Mathematically talented she and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, used for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day

Born: November 9, 1914
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
Star Sign: Scorpio

Died: January 19, 2000 (aged 85)
Cause of Death: Heart failure