Full Name: Nikola Tesla; Profession: inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist; Nationality: Serbian-American; Born: July 10, 1856; Birthplace: Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia); Generation: 19th‑century industrial/Victorian generation, pioneering Second Industrial Revolution science and technology; Chinese Zodiac: Dragon (Fire Dragon); Zodiac Sign: Cancer; Age in 2026 (if alive): 170; Marital Status: never married; Children: none; Description: visionary inventor whose development of alternating current (AC) power systems, including the AC induction motor and the Tesla coil, along with hundreds of patents, fundamentally shaped modern electrical engineering and enabled large-scale generation, transmission and use of electricity worldwide, making him one of the most influential inventors of the modern age and a lasting cultural symbol of scientific genius, innovation and futurism; Cause of death: heart disease, reported as acute myocardial infarction/coronary thrombosis, on January 7, 1943, in New York City at age 86.