Simplify the following text for a Grade 4 native English-speaking person.
Original: Hubert Cecil Booth ( 4 July 1871 -- 14 January 1955 ) was an British engineer who invented the first powered vacuum cleaner .
Simplified: Hubert Cecil Booth was the inventor of the vacuum cleaner . He was born in 1871 in Gloucester ( England ) and he died in 1955 .