László József Bíró or Ladislao José Biro (born as László József Schweiger, 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was a Hungarian-Argentine inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen had been invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J. Loud, but it did not attain commercial success.
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29 September 1899 Budapest, Austria–Hungary
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Died |
24 October 1985 (aged 86) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Zodiac | Libra |
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