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Bill gates
Birth date / Birth place
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955
Childhood
He was the middle child of William H. Gates II, a prominent Seattle lawyer, and Mary Gates, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. Bill had an older sister, Kristi, and a younger sister, Libby.
Childhood events
Bill loved to play board games and was competitive at most everything he did. He was an intelligent student and his best subject in grade school was math. However, Bill got easily bored with school and ended up getting into trouble a lot. His parents kept him occupied with outside activities like Boy Scouts (he earned his Eagle Scout badge) and reading science fiction books.
Schooling / College
After graduating from high school in 1973, Gates attended Harvard University. At first he planned to study as a lawyer, but he continued to spend much of his time on computers. He also kept in touch with his friend Paul Allen who was working for Honeywell.
Adulthood
Gates married Melinda French in January of 1994. They have since had three children including two daughters and a son. In 2000, Gates and his wife formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Today, this is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. Gates personally has donated over $28 billion to charity.
home
Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.
Other / Fun facts
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At first Microsoft had a hyphen in the name "Micro-soft". It was a combination of microcomputer and software.
When Microsoft first started out, Gates would look at every line of code before a new software product shipped.
In 2004, Gates predicted that email spam would be gone by 2006. He was wrong on that one!
He was dubbed an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth. He does not use the title "Sir" because he is not a citizen of the United Kingdom.
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