Dennis Ritchie : 1941-2011
Source(wikipedia.org)
Language C is said to be the mother of programming language, Denis Ritchie is the original inventor of it. He wanted to develop a general purpose Operating System, but no such programming language was there.
So he decided to develop such programming language and he invented C. Later he develop Unix operating system using C. Therefore, one can say that C language is the by product of Unix Operating System.
