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Gaston Glock

1929 - 2023

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Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman. He founded the company Glock. When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development of HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models. The first Glock pistol, chambered in 9x19mm and named the Glock 17 because it was Glock's 17th patent, entered Austrian military and police service in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Glock is the 176th most popular inventor (down from 110th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Austria (down from 279th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gaston Glock ranks 176 out of 426. Before him are Jang Yeong-sil, John Ericsson, Sandford Fleming, Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, and Uziel Gal. After him are Henrich Focke, Émile Baudot, Artur Fischer, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, and Lagâri Hasan Çelebi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Gaston Glock ranks 146. Before him are Vladimír Menšík, Robert Faurisson, Walter Brandmüller, Luis García Meza, Alexis Weissenberg, and Poul Schlüter. After him are Chespirito, Lee Shau-kee, Gabriel Urgebadze, Christos Sartzetakis, Kateb Yacine, and Jacques Deray. Among people deceased in 2023, Gaston Glock ranks 121. Before him are Antonella Lualdi, Lee Sun-kyun, Marisa Pavan, A. S. Byatt, Tim Keller, and Ian Wilmut. After him are Kevin Mitnick, Thomas Williams, Martin Davis, Anne Perry, Don Walsh, and Marc Augé.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 458 out of 1,424. Before him are Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Johann Strauss III (1866), Annie Fischer (1914), Hans Gross (1847), and Ivan Šubašić (1892). After him are Johann Nestroy (1801), Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Shlomo Sand (1946), Oscar Homolka (1898), Agnes of Austria (1281), and Karl Nehammer (1972).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 3. Before him are Robert Adler (1913), and Georg Luger (1849). After him are Viktor Schauberger (1885), and Štefan Banič (1870).

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