Graham Hawkes is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the manned submersibles produced in those two decades. As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 3,000 feet in the submarine Deep Rover. Hawkes invented the first robotic machine gun, the Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform, the first weapon he designed. He had been inspired to create a safer way for police to deal with situations after watching a shootout in North Hollywood, Los Angeles on television. 

December 23rd, 1947 in London (Age 76)