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Ottens, Lou, 1926-2021

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Personal name headingOttens, Lou, 1926-2021
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Variant(s)Ottens, Lodewijk Fredrik, 1926-2021
Associated countryNetherlands
Associated placeHasselt (Belgium)
LocatedKnegsel (Netherlands)
Birth date1926-06-21
Death date2021-03-06
Place of birthBellingwolde (Netherlands)
Place of deathDuizel (Netherlands)
Field of activityAudiocassettes Sound recording industry
AffiliationPhilips' Gloeilampenfabrieken
Profession or occupationEngineers Inventors
Found inCassette, 2018: title frame (Lou F. Ottens) container (Lou Ottens; inventor of audiocassette)
Dutch Wikipedia, February 19, 2018 (Lou Ottens; born June 21, 1926, Bellingwolde; lives in Knegsel; Dutch engineer and inventor; developed, with his team, the music cassette for Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, in the 1960s)
New York Times, March 11, 2021, accessed via WWW, March 18, 2021 (Lou Ottens; full name Lodewijk Frederik Ottens; died Saturday [March 6, 2021] in Duizel)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/music/lou-ottens-dead.html>