Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist featured in The Imitation Game, is born.
Alan Turing joins the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park to help break German Enigma codes during WWII.
Turing and his team develop the Bombe machine, crucial for deciphering Enigma-encrypted messages.
Alan Turing is prosecuted for homosexuality, then criminalized in the UK.
Alan Turing dies from cyanide poisoning, an apparent suicide.