Ada Lovelace Portrait

An etching from a portrait of a young Ada Lovelace, she was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, she wrote the firs algorithm that was meant to be executed by a machine while working with Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, she is regarded as the world's first computer programmer, she died at age 36 of uterine cancer, 1830. From the New York Public Library. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).