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Wolfgang Wickler was born in 1931.
Battleships have been in use since the 1500's, but the British Admiral Jackie Fisher was responsible for HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1905 and considered to be the first modern battleship. If the question refers to the game Battleship, it was invented by Clifford von Wickler in the early 1900's, and first marketed by the toy company Milton Bradley in 1943.
Bernhard Swatschek has written: 'Die Larvalsystematik der wickler'
WWI battleships were the off-spring of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought which was launched in 1906, which itself was a product of the Battle of Tsushima fought in 1905. Tsushima was the test bed between the latest 19th century French and British battleship designs, which upon conclusion, resulted in the laying of the Dreadnoughts keel in October 1905.
Many animals do. Insects such as the stick insect (mimics twigs), katydid (mimics green leaves), and some flies mimic the color scheme bees. Snakes such as the corn snake mimics the venomous coral snake color pattern to confuse predators into thinking that the corn snake is venomous.