| LC control no. | n 91008414 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gates, Bill, 1955- |
| Variant(s) | Gates, Bill, Jr., 1955- Gates, William, 1955- Gates, William H., III, 1955- Gates, William Henry, III, 1955- Gaici, Biʼer, 1955- Geĭts, Bill, 1955- Kaʼe-tshi, Pir, 1955- Kai-tzʻu, Pi-erh, 1955- |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Microsoft Corporation Founded corporate body of person: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Medina (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1955-10-28 |
| Place of birth | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Computer programming |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen Inventors Philanthropists Computer programmers |
| Found in | The making of Microsoft, 1991: CIP t.p. (Bill Gates) galley (b. 1956; founder & pres. of the Microsoft Corp.) William Gates : from whiz kid to software king, c1992: CIP galley (William H. Gates III) Info. from Enslow Publishers, Mar. 1997 (Bill Gates; b. in 1955) Academic Amer. encyc., 1995 (Gates, Bill; William Henry Gates; b. Oct. 28, 1955) World book encyc., 1996 (Gates, Bill; b. 1955) WWA, 1996 (Gates, Bill; b. 1955) Legs ʼgrub yoṅ ba ji ltar byed. Ri moʼi lam nas Pir Kaʼe-tshiʼi skor gleṅ ba, 1999: t.p. (Pir Kaʼe-tshi) t.p. verso (in Chinese: Biʼer Gaici) Biznes so skorostʹi︠u︡ mysli, 2001: t.p. (Bill Geĭts) Wikipedia, Mar. 4, 2013 (Bill Gates; William Henry "Bill" Gates III; born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Wash.; American programmer, inventor, business magnate and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world's largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder. He has also authored and co-authored several books; residence: Medina, WA) Wikipedia, September 13, 2013 (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates) The New York Times, Bill Gates Sr., who guided billionaire son's philanthropy, dies at 94, September 15, 2020, viewed online September 16, 2020 (in 1994 Bill Gates Sr. offered to help his son, Microsoft founder Bill Gates Jr., with requests for money; Bill Jr. set aside $100 to open the William H. Gates Foundation, with Bill Sr. writing the checks; Bill Gates Sr. managed the foundation over the next 13 years; in 2000 Bill Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated $5 billion in stock to create successor charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with them and his father as co-chairs and his father still manager; by 2008 Bill Gates Jr. began working full-time at the foundation and his father's role began to diminish; William Henry Gates Sr. was called William Henry Gates Jr. at birth; after his son Bill--born William Henry Gates III--became famous, the father adopted the suffix "Sr." and the son became "Jr.") |
| National bib agency no. | 0072B6565E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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