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#10201

C. V. Nielsen

1833 - 1910 (77 years)

Christian Vilhelm Nielsen was a Danish architect, furniture designer, and professor of perspective. Many aspiring architects attending his drawing school in preparation for admission to the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole.

#10202

Andrew Baxter Leven

1885 - 1966 (81 years)

Andrew Baxter Leven was a Scottish-born architect in Australia. As chief architect in the Queensland Department of Public Works, he designed many of Queensland's public buildings, some of which are now heritage-listed.

#10203

Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

1589 - 1658 (69 years)

Christopher Wren B.D. was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Windsor from 1635 until his death, and the father of the prominent architect Christopher Wren. Family Christopher Wren Senior was the son of Francis Wren, a citizen and mercer of London, who served steward to Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in England.

#10204

Gerald Bull

1928 - 1990 (62 years)

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.

#10205

John Gallalee

1883 - 1961 (78 years)

John Morin Gallalee was an American engineer, who became President of the University of Alabama. Gallalee was raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Virginia. He began teaching at the University of Alabama in 1913, and later oversaw campus construction. Gallalee's tenure as university president began in 1948. During his time in office, UA added nine residence halls, two classroom buildings and a stadium expansion to its campus, as well as the Capstone College of Nursing. Gallalee was succeeded by interim president Lee Bidgood in 1953, and continued working as a consultant engineer.

#10206

Inokuchi Ariya

1856 - 1923 (67 years)

Inokuchi Ariya was a mechanical technologist and professor. He was born in Kanazawa, and graduated from the University of Tokyo Kōgakubu . In Meiji 29 , he was installed in the University of Tokyo professor. He invented an Inoguchi shiki turbine pump . He established Nihon Kikai Gakkai

#10207

Jean Negulesco

1900 - 1993 (93 years)

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter. He first gained notice for his film noirs and later made such notable films as Johnny Belinda , How to Marry a Millionaire , Titanic , and Three Coins in the Fountain .

#10208

Ellis O. Knox

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Ellis O'Neal Knox was the first African American to be awarded a PhD in California. Knox received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922 from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in the history and philosophy of education from the University of Southern California in the 1931.

#10209

Liu Shiying

1893 - 1973 (80 years)

Liu Shiying , also known as Feixiong, was a Chinese architect and educator. Liu Shiying had five major contributions to the history of Chinese architecture:He was the founder of modern architectural education in China.He founded one of the first design firms run by Chinese architects in China.He was in charge of urban planning for Suzhou, laying the foundation for modern city development in Suzhou.He founded the Department of Architecture in Hunan University. Liu designed the early modern architectural complex in Hunan University, which became a nationally protected cultural relic.He introduce...

#10210

John Thomson of Duddingston

John Thomson of Duddingston

1778 - 1840 (62 years)

Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and noted amateur landscape painter. He was the minister of Duddingston Kirk from 1805 to 1840. Life The youngest of eight children, Thomson was born in the manse at Dailly, Ayrshire, the fourth son of Mary Hay and her husband, Rev Thomas Thomson, the local parish minister of the Church of Scotland. He was educated at Dailly Parish School.

#10211

James Smith McDonnell

James Smith McDonnell

1899 - 1980 (81 years)

James Smith "Mac" McDonnell was an American aviator, engineer, and businessman. He was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

#10212

Leonard D. Jungwirth

1903 - 1963 (60 years)

Leonard D. Jungwirth American sculptor born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied with his father Joachim Jungwirth, a Detroit wood carver. His formal education was furthered at the School of Fine Arts and Wayne State University both in Detroit. He spent 1929 through 1933 studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.

#10213

Raymond Moore

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

Raymond Moore was a post-war English art photographer. Born in Wallasey, then part of Cheshire, he served in the RAF and then trained as a painter at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, he was asked to set up a photography department at Watford College. Moore became interested in photography at a time when photography was still viewed in Britain as an undistinguished craft rather than a serious art form. Influenced by some of the images in Hugo van Wadenoyen's seminal 1947 Wayside Snapshots book - a book which marked the start of the decisive British break with Pictorialism - Moore began to see fresh possibilities in the composition & framing of everyday English landscapes.

#10214

George Pullman

1831 - 1897 (66 years)

George Mortimer Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired African-American men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips.

#10215

Aristoteles Philippidis

1915 - 1985 (70 years)

Aristoteles Iraklis Philippidis was a scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made contributions to the mechanics of materials, especially to the theory of plasticity. He was born in Smyrna. He graduated from the Praktikon Lykeum Athens in 1932 and got Diploma Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He went to Technical University of Berlin in 1938 and made his doctoral study under the supervision of Prof. Georg Hamel. In 1939, he got his doctor degree.

#10216

William Hague

1836 - 1899 (63 years)

William Hague Jr. was a well-known Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout mid- to late-nineteenth-century Ireland, particularly in Ulster. He is known as a protégé of A.W.N. Pugin. His office was located at 50 Dawson Street, Dublin.

#10217

Henry Hill

1806 - 1887 (81 years)

Henry Hill was an Irish architect based in County Cork. Biography Henry Hill was the second surviving son of Thomas Hill, and along with his elder brother William Hill was half of the founding generation of the dynasty of the Hill family of architects. In the next generation, his son, Arthur Hill, along with William's son William Henry Hill, and another of his nephews, Arthur Richard Hill, all became architects. Arthur Hill's son, Henry Houghton Hill and William Henry Hill's son -also called William Henry Hill- would both go on to become architects as well. Henry Houghton Hill was also the fa...

#10218

William Davidson Niven

William Davidson Niven

1842 - 1917 (75 years)

Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and electrical engineer. After an early teaching career at Cambridge, Niven was Director of Studies at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, for thirty years.

#10219

Jack Hawkins

1910 - 1973 (63 years)

John Edward Hawkins, CBE was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was known for his portrayal of military men.

#10220

Robert Matthew

1906 - 1975 (69 years)

Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, OBE FRIBA FRSE was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism. Early life & studies Robert Matthew was the son of John Fraser Matthew and his wife, Annie Broadfoot Hogg.

#10221

Baha' al-din al-'Amili

1547 - 1621 (74 years)

#10222

Johan Adrianus Gerard van der Steur

1865 - 1945 (80 years)

Johan Adrianus Gerard van der Steur was a Dutch architect and professor at the Delft Technical University, of which he was rector magnificus in the year 1922–1923. Life and work Van der Steur was born in Haarlem where his father, Ad van der Steur, worked as an architect. Between 1983 and 1988 he studied architectural engineering at the Polytechnic School of Delft, where he was also taught by Eugen Gugel.

#10223

Bruno Piglhein

1848 - 1894 (46 years)

Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein was a German sculptor and painter. He was a founder and first President of the Munich Secession. Life His father was a decorator. Upon graduating from the Gymnasium, he studied with the sculptor Julius Lippelt. After Lippelt's death from tuberculosis, Piglhein went to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but had to leave after two years for an alleged lack of talent. The sculptor Johannes Schilling saw that he had some potential, however, and took him into his studio. After a short stay in Italy, Piglhein decided to take up painting instead and, on Schilling's recommendation, began studies with Ferdinand Pauwels at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School.

#10224

Vera Prasilova Scott

1899 - 1996 (97 years)

Vera Prasilova Scott was a Czech-American photographer and sculptor. Her main work, which consisted of shadowed, gelatin silver photographs of Houstonian upper class society and intellectuals, has been preserved at the Rice University Woodson Research Center, the Museum of Czech Literature, and the Portland Museum of Art.

#10225

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault

1820 - 1890 (70 years)

Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. Although The New York Times hailed him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century," he and his second wife, Agnes Robertson Boucicault, had applied for and received American citizenship in 1873.

#10226

Marjan Amalietti

1923 - 1988 (65 years)

Marjan Amalietti was a Slovene architect, also known for his illustrations, comics and caricatures. Amalietti was born in Ormož in 1923. He studied architecture at what was then the Technical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1954. From 1957 he also taught at the faculty. For many years his caricatures were regularly published in the satirical magazine Pavliha. He also illustrated numerous children's books. In 1978 he won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Netočka Nezvanova and Ulenspiegel .

#10227

Lee Pierce Butler

1884 - 1953 (69 years)

Lee Pierce Butler was a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. He was one of the first to use the term "library science" , by which he meant the scientific study of books and users, and was a leader in the new social-scientific approach to the field in the 1930s and 1940s.

#10228

Robert Helpmann

Robert Helpmann

1909 - 1986 (77 years)

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of the company's leading men, partnering Alicia Markova and later Margot Fonteyn. When Frederick Ashton, the company's chief choreographer, was called up for military service in the Second World War, Helpmann took over from him while continuing as a principal dancer.

#10229

Homer Clyde Snook

1878 - 1942 (64 years)

Homer Clyde Snook was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed the Snook apparatus, the first interrupterless device produced for X-ray work. Life and times Homer Clyde Snook was born in 1878, at Antwerp, Ohio, to Judge Wilson H. Snook and Nancy Jane Snook . He had 4 siblings, brothers Otto W. and Ward Hunt, and sisters Lee May and Ethel Maud. On 24 June 1903, Snook, age 24, occupation listed as science expert, form Philadelphia, married May Eusebia McKee , age 26, occupation listed as at home, from Warren, Ohio. He was the son of Wilson H. Snook and Nannie Graves. The bride was the daughter of John McKee and Mary E.

#10230

F. Morris Touchstone

1897 - 1957 (60 years)

Francis Morris Touchstone was an American lacrosse coach. He served for 29 years as the head coach for the United States Military Academy's men's lacrosse team and is their all-time winningest coach by number of wins. While at Army, he led the Cadets to three national championships and 42 of his players received first-team All-American honors. Shortly after his death he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The Touchstone Memorial Award for the men's college lacrosse coach of the year was established in his honor.

#10231

Arthur Hill

1846 - 1921 (75 years)

Arthur Hill was an Irish architect based in County Cork. Biography Born in Cork on 8 June 1846, Arthur Hill was the son of Henry Hill and nephew of William Hill, part of a dynasty of Cork-based architects that included his cousins William Henry Hill and Arthur Richard Hill, as well as his son Henry Houghton Hill and first-cousin once-removed William Henry Hill. He was the grandfather via Henry Houghton Hill of Michelin star chef Myrtle Allen.

#10232

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald

1871 - 1931 (60 years)

Edward Arthur FitzGerald was an American-born mountaineer and soldier of British descent, best known for leading the expedition which made the first ascent of Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the American Continent, in 1897.

#10233

Sebastiano Giuseppe Locati

Sebastiano Giuseppe Locati

1861 - 1939 (78 years)

Sebastiano Giuseppe Locati was an Italian architect. He became famous at the turn of the twentieth century for his efforts in designing structures in eclectic and Art Nouveau styles. Life and career Born to Francesco Locati and Angela Fossati, he studied at the Accademia di Brera, where he was a pupil of Camillo Boito and Carlo Formenti. After completing his studies in 1881, he won the Oggioni Competition for a two-year post-graduate course in Rome, after which he moved to Paris, where he enrolled in the Académie des Beaux-Arts and where he updated his artistic knowledge, nurturing his eclect...

#10234

George G. Adams

1850 - 1932 (82 years)

George G. Adams was an American architect from Lawrence, Massachusetts. Life and career George Gilman Adams was born August 26, 1850, in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, to Benjamin Gilman Adams, a mill superintendent, and Sophia Adams. In 1854 the family moved to Lawrence, then a growing industrial city. He was educated in the Lawrence public schools before joining the office of civil engineer Baldwin Coolidge as a drafter in 1870. Two years later he joined the office of local architect Charles T. Emerson as a student. In 1875 Emerson and Adams formed a partnership, which lasted until 1878, when Emerson moved his business to Boston.

#10235

Milarepa

1052 - 1135 (83 years)

Jetsun Milarepa was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple. He is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings are known among several schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also famous for the feat of climbing Mount Kailash.

#10236

Emile Berliner

1851 - 1929 (78 years)

Emile Berliner originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894; The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 . Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine , a helicopter , and acoustical tiles .

#10237

Charles Sykes

1905 - 1982 (77 years)

Sir Charles Sykes CBE, FRS was a British physicist and metallurgist. He was born in Clowne, Derbyshire, the only son of Samuel Sykes, the local greengrocer and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he gained a BSc in physics in 1925. He stayed on there to do a PhD course in physics but after one year accepted an invitation by Metropolitan-Vickers of Manchester to complete an unfinished project on the alloys of zirconium. The results of that study earned him a PhD in metallurgy and a position in the research department of Metropolitan-Vickers.

#10238

Mike Todd

1909 - 1958 (49 years)

Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one whom Taylor did not divorce - Todd died in a private plane accident a year after their marriage. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format.

#10239

Georges Claude

1870 - 1960 (90 years)

Georges Claude was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". Claude was an active collaborator with the German occupiers of France during the Second World War, for which he was imprisoned in 1945 and stripped of his honors.

#10240

Cy Young

1900 - 1964 (64 years)

Cyrus "Cy" Young was a Chinese-American special effects animator, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company. Young was brother of Chinese politician Yang Qianli , architect Yang Xiliu , Entrepreneur Yang Xiren and Yang Renlan . He had works in China called Pause and New Year. Young's first work in United States was as lead animator on the 1931 short "Mendelssohn's Spring Song", a project completed while he was a student in New York City. Disney was so impressed with his work that he hired him to be head of the new special effects animation department and he partnered with animator U...

#10241

William Robertson

1786 - 1841 (55 years)

William Robertson was a Scottish architect. Born in Lonmay in Aberdeenshire, he started his career in Cullen, Moray, then moved to Elgin around 1821, where he practised for the rest of his life. He established himself as the foremost architect of his period north of Aberdeen, described by Charles McKean as "possibly the north of Scotland's first native classical architect of substance." His practice was continued by his nephews Alexander and William Reid, and their partners and successors J and W Wittet.

#10242

Norman Percy Allen

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Norman Percy Allen was a British metallurgist. Early life He was born in Wrexham, North Wales, the son of accountant Sidney Edward Allen and educated at Burton-on-Trent Boys' Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he obtained an honours degree in metallurgy.

#10243

Florence Ward Stiles

Florence Ward Stiles

1897 - 1981 (84 years)

Florence Ward Stiles was an American architect and librarian who in 1939 was appointed the first advisor to women students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She was awarded an architecture degree as a member of MIT's class of 1923. After graduating, she joined the all-woman firm of Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. Her career included working at the firm of Stone & Webster. Later she established a private practice with a focus on small dwellings and remodeling historic houses. In 1931 she became the librarian at MIT's Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning. She joined the American Institute of Architects in 1943.

#10244

Ralph D. Cornell

1890 - 1972 (82 years)

Ralph Dalton Cornell was an American landscape architect from Los Angeles, California. Biography Early life Ralph Dalton Cornell was born on January 11, 1890, in Holdrege, Nebraska. He moved to California with his family in 1908. He graduated from Pomona College in 1914 and received an M.L.A. from Harvard University in 1917. During World War I, he served in the United States Army.

#10245

Richard Sears McCulloh

1818 - 1894 (76 years)

Richard Sears McCulloh was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Career McCulloh was born on 18 March 1818 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1836, then studied chemistry in Philadelphia with James Curtis Booth from 1838 to 1839. From 1846 to 1849 he worked for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1846. McCulloh was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Princeton University on 24 October 1849, ...

#10246

Dillard E. Bird

1906 - 1990 (84 years)

Dillard Eugene Bird was an American industrial and consulting engineer, founder and President of Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was known as "veteran in the field of personnel administration," and as the 10th president of the Society for Advancement of Management from 1949 to 1951.

#10247

Syrius Eberle

1844 - 1903 (59 years)

Syrius Eberle was a German sculptor and art professor. Biography Eberle was born in Pfronten, Allgäu, the son of a carpenter. He married the daughter of the lithographer Thomas Driendl , also from Pfronten.

#10248

Giuseppe Bruno

1828 - 1893 (65 years)

Giuseppe Bruno was an Italian mathematician, professor of geometry in the university of Turin. Life and work Bruno has born in a very poor family, but he won a stipend to study in the University of Turin, where he graduated in philosophy in 1846. The following years he was professor at secondary level, while he studied to graduate in engineering and to doctorate in mathematics .

#10249

John Philip Holland

John Philip Holland

1840 - 1914 (74 years)

John Philip Holland was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1. Early life Holland, the second of four siblings, all boys, was born in a coastguard cottage in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland where his father, John Sr., was a member of the Royal Coastguard Service. His mother, a native Irish speaker from Liscannor, Máire Ní Scannláin , was John Holland's second wife; his first, Anne Foley Holland, believed to be a native of Kilkee, died in 1835. The area was heavily Irish-speaking and Holla...

#10250

Michiel Coignet

1549 - 1623 (74 years)

Michiel Coignet was a Flemish polymath who made significant contributions to various disciplines including cosmography, mathematics, navigation and cartography. He also built new and improved scientific instruments and made military engineering designs.

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