Howard Carter was an archaeologist and egyptologist from England. He was born on Mai 9th in 1874.
He discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in the year 1922. This find is one of the important finds in the history of archaeology. It takes 5 years until Howard Carter found the tomb. He was 48 years old at this moment.
At the age of 64 Howard Carter died.
Google honors him on Mai 9th 2012 with an birthday Google Doodle.
Happy Birthday Howard Carter!

Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon), Egyptian twt-ˤnḫ-ı͗mn, [təwaːt ʕaːnəx ʔaˈmaːn]; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, means 'Living Image of Aten', while Tutankhamun means 'Living Image of Amun'. In hieroglyphs, the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence.[3] He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years — a figure which conforms with Flavius Josephus's version of Manetho's Epitome.[4].