Birth and Education Donald Ervin “Don” Knuth was born January 10, 1938, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was a teacher in a Lutheran high school and a church organist. Don Knuth attended Lutheran high school and, in later life, also became a church organist. In the 7th and 8th grades Knuth was very interested in the structure of English grammar. In high school he was interested in physics and was good at mathematics.
