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László József Bíró
* 1899 in Budapest
+ 1985 in Buenos Aires
László József Bíró (born as László József Schweiger) 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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