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Lázso József Bíró invented the ballpoint pen in 1931. He was born in Budapest, Hungary in October 1899. His family was Jewish and he worked as both a journalist and inventor. While working as a journalist, he noticed how newspaper ink dried quickly and was viscous, which led him to experiment with different tip designs until discovering that a small ball inside the tip allowed the viscous ink to write well. He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1985.






