Engineers & Architects Chronology

Births, deaths, defining moments of Engineers & Architects

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1404
Feb 18Leon B Alberti Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura), is born.Ref: 5
1434
May 16Pieter Appelmans Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60.Ref: 5
1446
Apr 16Filippo Brunelleschi architect, dies.Ref: 5
1472
Apr 15Leon B Alberti Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68.Ref: 5
1508
Nov 30Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, is born.Ref: 70
1536
Jan 06Baldassare Peruzzi Italian architect/painter, dies.Ref: 5
1537
Apr 08Willem Aerts Flemish architect, dies.Ref: 5
1565
May 15Henrick de Keyser architect/master builder of Amsterdam, is born.Ref: 5
1572
Dec 30Galeazzo Alessi Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60.Ref: 5
1573
Feb 28Elias Hill German architect/city builder (Augsburg), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 15Inigo Jones, architect; restored St Paul's cathedral (1634-42), is born in London.Ref: 5
1580
Aug 19Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1595
Feb 02Jacob van Campen painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam), is born.Ref: 5
1599
Sep 25Francesco Borromini, Italian Baroque architect, is born.Ref: 70
1608
Sep 01Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer and engineer, is born.Ref: 70
1613
Mar 12Andre Le Notre, French landscape architect; designed the Versailles gardens, is born.Ref: 70
Sep 25Claude Perrault, French physician, architect and engineer, is born.Ref: 70
1621
May 15Henrick de Keyser Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56.Ref: 5
1624
Jan 17Guarino Guarini, Italian architect, is born.Ref: 70
1632
Oct 20Architect, astronomer, mathematician, architect, Sir Christopher Wren, is born.Ref: 4
1633
May 01Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban French fortress architect, is born.Ref: 5
1634
Feb 22Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten fortress architect, is born.Ref: 5
1645
Dec 27Giovanni Adb Viscardi Swiss architect, baptized, is born.Ref: 5
1646
Jan 06Elias Hill German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72.Ref: 5
1650
Feb 08John Adriaensz hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74.Ref: 5
1652
Jun 21Inigo Jones, architect, landscape designer and antiquary, dies in Somerset House, London at age 78.Ref: 70
1660
Aug 21Hubert Gautier engineer, wrote first book on bridge building, is born.Ref: 5
1667
May 07Germain Boffrand, French architect; worked in the Baroque and Rococo styles, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 02Francesco Borromini, Italian Baroque architect, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
1668
Nov 14Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect, is born.Ref: 70
1669
May 02Pieter Jansz Post master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61.Ref: 5
1678
Jun 17Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer and engineer, dies at age 69.Ref: 70
Dec 02Nicolaas S Cruquius Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer), is born.Ref: 5
1682
Apr 22Willem I Kerricx the Young Flemish architect/sculptor/painter, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 23James Gibbs, Scottish architect, is born.Ref: 70
1683
Mar 06Guarino Guarini, Italian architect, dies at age 59.Ref: 70
1685
Jun 30Dominikus Zimmermann, Bavarian Baroque architect, is born.Ref: 70
1686
Jan 21Nicolas-François Blondel French architect, dies.Ref: 5
1687
Jan 30[Johann] Balthasar Neumann German architect, baptized, is born.Ref: 5
1688
Oct 09Claude Perrault, French physician, architect and engineer, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
1691
Feb 08Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi Italian architect/composer, dies at 79.Ref: 5
1699
Feb 17Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff German architect (Sanssouci), is born.Ref: 5
1700
May 12Luigi Vanvitelli Italian architect, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Andre Le Notre, French landscape architect; designed the Versailles gardens, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1705
Jan 17Jacques-Francois Blondel, French architect, is born.Ref: 70
1707
Mar 30Sébastien le Prestre Vauban French fortress architect, dies at 73.Ref: 5
1709
Dec 27Pieter de Swart Dutch architect (Royal Palace, Hague), is born.Ref: 5
1713
Jul 22Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, is born.Ref: 70
1723
Feb 25Sir Christopher Wren architect, astronomer, mathematician; dies at age 90.Ref: 4
Apr 05J Fischer von Erlach Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66.Ref: 5
1724
Mar 08Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli Swiss architect, dies at about 81.Ref: 5
Jun 08John Smeaton, English engineer, is born.Ref: 2
1728
Jul 03Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer, is born.Ref: 70
1731
Dec 26Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan), is born.Ref: 5
1736
Dec 21Alessandro Galilei Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45.Ref: 5
1745
Jan 04Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62.Ref: 5
Nov 16Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1746
Aug 03James Wyatt, English romantic architect, is born.Ref: 17
1747
Jan 10Abraham L Breguet French clock maker, is born.Ref: 5
1751
Dec 17Kilian I von Dientzenhofer Czechoslovakian master builder, dies at 62.Ref: 5
Dec 18Kilian I von Dientzenhofer builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62.Ref: 5
1753
Sep 10Sir John Soane England, architect (Soane Museum), is born.Ref: 5
1754
Feb 05Nicolaas S Cruquius hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75.Ref: 5
Mar 18Germain Boffrand, French architect; worked in the Baroque and Rococo styles, dies at age 86.Ref: 5
May 23John Wood architect/town planner, dies.Ref: 5
Aug 02Pierre Charles L’Enfant architect, engineer, Revolutionary War officer: designed the plan for city of Washington D.C.; is born.Ref: 4
Aug 05James Gibbs, Scottish architect, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1757
Jan 16Samuel McIntire, architect of Salem, Massachusetts, is born.Ref: 2
1759
May 20William Thornton architect (Capitol building, Washington DC), is born.Ref: 5
1762
Apr 14Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist, is born.Ref: 5
1763
Aug 08Charles Bulfinch Boston Mass, first US pro architect (Mass State House), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Claude Chappe French engineer (optical telegraph), is born.Ref: 5
1764
May 01Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the US Capitol, is born.Ref: 2
1766
Nov 16Dominikus Zimmermann, Bavarian Baroque architect, dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1767
Dec 09Benedetto Alfieri Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies.Ref: 5
1768
Apr 14François de Cuvilliés Belgian architect of Bayern, dies.Ref: 5
1769
Apr 25Mark Isambard Brunel engineer/inventor, is born.Ref: 5
1770
Oct 10Benjamin Wright, American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal, is born.Ref: 70
1773
Mar 01Luigi Vanvitelli [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72.Ref: 5
1774
Jan 09Jacques-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies at age 69.Ref: 70
May 27Francis Beaufort Admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale), is born.Ref: 5
1780
Aug 29Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
1781
Mar 13Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 12Robert Mills, architect and engineer whose designs include the Washington Monument, the National Portrait Gallery and the U.S. Treasury Building, is born.Ref: 2
1782
Jan 04Ange-Jacques Gabriel French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83.Ref: 5
1783
Feb 06Lancelot "Capability" Brown English architect (Kew), dies at about 67.Ref: 5
Apr 08John Loudon, Scottish landscape architect and horticultural journalist, is born.Ref: 70
1784
Feb 29Franz von Klenze German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 20Sir Richard Griffith, Irish geologist and civil engineer, is born.Ref: 70
1791
Feb 12Jan D Zocher Jr Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark Amsterdam), is born.Ref: 5
1792
Mar 03Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63.Ref: 5
1795
May 23Charles Barry architect, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14John Bloomfield Jarvis, civil engineer, is born.Ref: 2
1800
Feb 15Frederik W Conrad Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, is born.Ref: 5
1801
Aug 03Sir John Paxton, British architect, horticulturist, designer of the Crystal Palace, is born.Ref: 17
1802
Jan 22Richard Upjohn US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, New York), is born.Ref: 5
1803
Jul 24Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist), is born.Ref: 70
1804
Sep 16Squire Whipple, American civil engineer, inventor and theoretician, is born.Ref: 70
1805
May 16Christian Brunings hydraulic engineer, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Nov 19Ferdinand de Lesseps France, diplomat (built Suez Canal), is born.Ref: 5
1806
Apr 09Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of first transatlantic steamer, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 12John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges, is born.Ref: 2
1809
Mar 27Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French architect, town planner, designed modern-day Paris, is born.Ref: 2
Oct 06John W. Griffiths, the developer of the Clipper ship, is born.Ref: 62
1810
Sep 04Donald McKay US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 28William Froude, England, engineer, naval architect, is born.Ref: 5
1813
Sep 04James Wyatt, English romantic architect, dies.Ref: 17
1814
Sep 07William Butterfield, English Gothic Revival architect, is born.Ref: 70
1816
May 12Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, lawyer and architect, is born.Ref: 2
Jun 19William Henry Webb, American naval architect and shipbuilder, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 24Sir Daniel Gooch (laid the 1st successful transatlantic cable) is born.Ref: 5
1817
Mar 26Herman Haupt, American civil engineer and inventor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born.Ref: 70
1818
Nov 01Jems Renwick, architect, is born.Ref: 2
1820
May 23James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 03Benjamin Henry Latrobe, British-born American architect and civil engineer, dies at age 56.Ref: 70
1822
Apr 26Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect: Yosemite National Park, Central Park in New York City and other city parks in Boston, MA, Hartford, CT and Louisville, KY; died Aug 28, 1903Ref: 4
1824
Jun 26William Thomson Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist, is born.Ref: 5
1825
Jun 14Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer who designed the layout of Washington D.C. dies at age 70.Ref: 4
Nov 06Charles Garnier, French architect, is born.Ref: 70
1826
Mar 01J J Friedrich Weinbrenner German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59.Ref: 5
1827
Apr 17French C Baeckelmans Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp), is born.Ref: 5
May 16Petrus J H Cuypers architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station), is born.Ref: 5
1830
Oct 21Georg von Dollmann, German architect, is born.Ref: 70
1832
Dec 15Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, is born.Ref: 68
1834
Feb 15Sir William Preece English electrical engineer, wireless pioneer, is born.Ref: 5
1835
Jan 18César A Cui Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer, is born.Ref: 5
1837
Jan 20John Soane English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84.Ref: 5
1838
Sep 29Henry Hobson Richardson US Romanesque revival architect, is born.Ref: 5
1839
Feb 01Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76.Ref: 5
1841
Apr 02Clément Ader French engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 13Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, is born.Ref: 70
Oct 09Karl Schinkel, German architect and painter, dies at age 60.Ref: 70
1842
Jan 06Clarence King mining engineer (geologist), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24Benjamin Wright, American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1843
Feb 16Henry Martyn Leland, A American engineer and manufacturer, is born.Ref: 70
1844
Apr 04Charles Bulfinch first US pro architect (Massachusetts State House), dies at 80.Ref: 5
Jul 03Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer, is born.Ref: 2
1846
Feb 09Henry Gally Knight architect/writer, dies.Ref: 5
Sep 04Daniel Burnham US, architect/built skyscrapers, is born.Ref: 5
1847
Mar 08Karl von Bach German engineer (Maschinenelemente), is born.Ref: 5
May 31William Pirrie, Irish shipbuilder; built the Titanic, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 24Charles Follen McKim, American architect, is born.Ref: 70
1850
Jan 10John Wellborn Root, American architect, is born.Ref: 70
May 21Gustav Lindenthal, Austrian-born American civil engineer; designed the Hell Gate Bridge, is born.Ref: 70
1851
May 23Lucas Pieter Roodbaard architect, dies at 69.Ref: 5
1852
Jun 25Antonio y Cornet Gaudi, Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia, Barcelona), is born.Ref: 68
1853
Mar 29Elihu Thomson, American engineer and inventor; founder of U.S. electrical industry, is born.Ref: 70
Apr 25John Frank Stevens, American chief civil engineer of the Panama Canal (1905-7), is born.Ref: 70
Nov 09Stanford White architect: partner in architectural firm: McKim, Mead and White: NY’s PA Station, old Madison Square Garden, Washington Arch, Players, Century and Metropolitan Clubs, Boston Public Library, is born.Ref: 4
1854
Apr 06William Strickland US architect, dies.Ref: 5
Sep 11William Holabird, American architect, is born.Ref: 70
1855
Mar 03Robert Mills, architect and engineer whose designs include the Washington Monument, the National Portrait Gallery and the U.S. Treasury Building, dies at age 73.Ref: 70
May 07Oskar von Miller, German engineer; founded the Munich Museum of Science and Technology, is born.Ref: 70
1856
Feb 21Hendrik P Berlage architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 21Louise Blanchard Bethune, first US woman architect, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 03Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture, is born.Ref: 5
1858
Jun 29George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer of Panama Canal; is born.Ref: 4
1859
Apr 18Eduard G H H Cuypers architect (Sanatorium High-Laren), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil and mechanical engineer; designed the first transatlantic steamer, dies at age 53.Ref: 70
Nov 24Cass Gilbert, American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building, is born.Ref: 70
1860
Mar 11Thomas Hastings New York NY, architect (New York Public Library), is born.Ref: 5
1861
Jan 06Victor, Baron Horta, Belgian architect, is born.Ref: 70
Sep 23Robert Bosch, German engineer and industrialist, is born.Ref: 70
1862
Feb 07Bernard Maybeck US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Johnson Kelly Duncan architect/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35.Ref: 5
1863
Dec 16Ralph Adams Cram US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St John the Divine NYC), is born.Ref: 5
1864
Jan 27Franz von Klenze German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59.Ref: 5
Mar 04David Watson Taylor, American marine architect, is born.Ref: 70
Nov 27Franz von Klenze German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59.Ref: 5
1865
Jun 08Sir John Paxton, British architect, horticulturist, designer of the Crystal Palace, dies at age 63.Ref: 17
1866
Feb 15Bannister Fletcher London, architect & architectural historian, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 28Henry Bacon architect (Lincoln Memorial), is born.Ref: 5
1867
Mar 10Hector Guimard, French architect and furniture designer, is born.Ref: 70
Jun 08Frank Lloyd Wright architect: Pennsylvania’s Falling Water, NYC’s Guggenheim Museum; “No house should be on any hill or on anything, it should be of the hill, belonging to it …”; is born in Richland Center WI.Ref: 17
Dec 22Joseph [Maria] Olbrich Silesia, German architect (Wiener Sezession), is born.Ref: 5
1868
Jun 07Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer, is born.Ref: 70
Oct 23Frederick Lanchester, English engineer, is born.Ref: 70
1869
Feb 01Frederik W Conrad hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Mar 21Albert Kahn, architect who originated modern factory design, is born.Ref: 2
Mar 29Edwin Lutyens architect, London, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 14Daniel Jackling, American mining engineer and metallurgist, is born.Ref: 70
Nov 23Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer; contributed to development of radio, is born.Ref: 70
1870
Jan 09Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 09Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 24Fred Law Olmsted Jr architect/landscaper, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 10Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 15Josef Hoffmann Austrian architect, is born.Ref: 5
1872
Jan 04Edmund Rumpler Austria, auto/airplane builder, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Julia Morgan, American architect, is born.Ref: 70
1873
Aug 20Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 09Antoine Pompe Belgian architect, is born.Ref: 5
1874
Feb 06Milton Bennett Medary US, architect (Washington Chapel), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer in designs of reinforced concrete buildings, is born.Ref: 2
Apr 19Owen Jones architect, dies.Ref: 5
Apr 24John Russell Pope US, architect (Jefferson Memorial), is born.Ref: 5
May 04Frank Conrad, the American electrical engineer whose innovations led to the establishment of the first radio station, is born.Ref: 70
1876
Mar 05Edouard Belin, French engineer and inventor, is born.Ref: 70
Mar 23Sir Muirhead Bone Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 24Walter Griffin US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Austria, is born.Ref: 5
1878
Mar 27George Gilbert Scott architect, dies.Ref: 5
May 24Lillian Moller Gilbreth engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954), pioneer in time-motion studies, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 22Sir Richard Griffith, Irish geologist and civil engineer, dies at age 94.Ref: 2
Dec 25W Starling Burgess yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise), is born.Ref: 5
1879
Mar 26Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born American engineer and designer of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is born.Ref: 70
May 04William Froude, English naval architect, dies at age 68.Ref: 70
Jun 06Sir Patrick Abercrombie, English architect and town planner, is born.Ref: 70
Sep 05Frank Baldwin Jewett, American engineer; first president of Bell Laboratories (1925-40), is born.Ref: 70
1880
May 12W Hupkes engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938), is born.Ref: 5
May 19Allard R Hulshoff architect of Amsterdam (1924), is born.Ref: 5
1881
Jan 16Sir Arthur Fleming, English engineer, is born.Ref: 70
Mar 29Raymond Hood, architect, is born.Ref: 2
1882
Apr 23Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien Belgium, architect (WWII), is born.Ref: 5
1883
May 18Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (founded Bauhaus school of design), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 19[Francis] Barry Byrne Chicago IL, architect, is born.Ref: 5
1885
Jan 02Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12Raphaël Verwilghen Flemish architect/urban developer, is born.Ref: 5
1886
Mar 27Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German-born architect who helped introduce the International Style to the United States, is born.Ref: 70
Jun 11David Steinman NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 26Jerome Hunsaker, American aeronautical engineer, is born.Ref: 70
1887
Feb 01Dirk Roosenburg Dutch architect, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 08James Buchanan Eads, American engineer; built the triple-arch steel bridge over the Mississippi River, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Oct 06Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), architect, is born.Ref: 4
1888
Mar 15Squire Whipple, American civil engineer, inventor and theoretician, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Dec 08Fiske Kimball US architect/art historian, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Kaare Klint, Danish architect and furniture designer, is born.Ref: 70
1889
Feb 18Sybold van Ravesteyn architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 2167 G. Donald Harrison 4/21/1889 6/14/1956 English-born American organ designer and builderRef: 70
Oct 15Sir Daniel Gooch laid first successful transatlantic cables, dies at age 73.Ref: 70
1890
Feb 09Jacobus J P Oud Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 01Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Zonnestral), is born.Ref: 5
1891
Jan 15John Wellborn Root, American architect, dies at age 41.Ref: 70
Jan 15John Wellborn Root, American architect, dies at age 41.Ref: 70
Feb 22Jan Wils Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympics Stadium), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Arthur Herrington, American engineer and manufacturer; developed the World War II jeep, is born.Ref: 70
Jun 21Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, is born.Ref: 70
Nov 18Gio Ponti, Italian architect, is born.Ref: 70
1892
Jan 14Alexander Davis, American architect, designer and illustrator, dies at age 89.Ref: 70
Apr 08Richard J Neutra Austrian/US architect (Who Built America?), is born.Ref: 5
1893
Feb 14Kay Fisker Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen), is born.Ref: 5
1894
Dec 03Jozef Schadde Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76.Ref: 5
Dec 19Yoshida Isoya Tokyo Japan, architect (modern sukiya style), is born.Ref: 5
1895
Mar 31Georg von Dollmann, German architect, dies at age 64.Ref: 70
Apr 07Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer, is born.Ref: 5
1896
Jan 25Frans C Baeckelmans Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68.Ref: 5
1898
Feb 03Alvar Aalto Finland, architect (Finlandia House), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 14Harold Black, electrical engineer, is born.Ref: 2
Aug 03Charles Garnier, French architect, dies at age 72.Ref: 5
1899
Mar 18Douglas Strutt Galton English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76.Ref: 5
Apr 13Alfred Schutz Austrian/US architect/philosopherRef: 5
Oct 30William Henry Webb, American naval architect and shipbuilder, dies at age 83.Ref: 2
1900
Feb 23William Butterfield, English Gothic Revival architect, dies at age 85.Ref: 70
Apr 16Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer, dies at age 55.Ref: 70
Sep 22William Spratling, American silver designer and architect, is born.Ref: 70
Sep 24Stephen Bechtel, American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp, is born.Ref: 70
1901
Jan 25Eric Brown architect, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 15Paul Haesaerts Flemish architect/painter (Animisme), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Louis I Kahn Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Sir Howard Bailey, British engineer who gave his name to a prefabricated bridge used extensively during World War II, is born.Ref: 2
Oct 02Charles Stark Draper, American engineer, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 20Louis I Kahn US architect [or Feb 20], is born.Ref: 5
Dec 24Clarence King mining engineer (geologist), dies.Ref: 17
1902
Feb 11Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer, is born.Ref: 70
Mar 09Edward Durell Stone US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 22Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, is born.Ref: 70
May 04Rodney Meredith Thomas architect/painter, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect, is born.Ref: 2
Jun 26William P. Lear, American engineer and industrialist, is born.Ref: 2
1903
Feb 05Nathaniel Owings Indpls IN, architect (Oak Ridge TN; Sears), is born.Ref: 5
May 13Alfred Pugsley civil engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 18Victor Gruen, Austrian-born American architect and city planner, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 28Frederick Law Olmstead, American landscape architect; designed Central Park in New York City, dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1904
Feb 14Charles William Oatley electrical engineer, is born.Ref: 5
May 29Junzo Sakakura, Japanese architect, is born.Ref: 70
1905
Jan 03Dante Giacosa engineer/designer, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 07Francis Taylor builder, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 25Walter Hassan engineer, is born.Ref: 5
May 10Angus Paton civil engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Herman Haupt, American civil engineer and inventor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), dies at age 88.Ref: 70
1906
May 13Thomas Mitchell architect/engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 08Philip C. Johnson, architect, is born.Ref: 2
Dec 02Peter Carl Goldmark, engineer, developed the first commercial color television and the long-playing phonograph record, is born.Ref: 2
1907
Feb 13Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer, dies at 59.Ref: 5
May 23Kenneth Allen engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 09Noel Walton Bott engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Oscar Niemeyer Brazilians architect (Brasilia), is born.Ref: 5
1908
Mar 26Robert William Paine architect, is born.Ref: 5
May 23Max Abramovitz US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Marius F Duintjer Dutch architect, is born.Ref: 5
1909
Sep 14Charles Follen McKim, American architect, dies at age 62.Ref: 70
1910
Jan 25Viljo Revell, Finnish architect, is born.Ref: 70
May 23Hugh Casson architect, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 20Eero Saarinen, Finnish-born American architect, is born.Ref: 70
1911
Mar 24Jane Beverly Drew architect, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Lord Deramore architect, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Jacob Fresco Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Georg Knorr German engineer, dies.Ref: 5
Apr 18Francis Frederick Johnson architect, is born.Ref: 5
1912
Jan 09Ralph Tubbs architect, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 09Ralph Tubbs architect, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 10Roy Hofheinz engineer (Houston Astrodome), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 18John Lapworth Holt boat Designer, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 01Daniel Burnham, American architect and city planner, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
Sep 07David Packard, American engineer; cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co., is born.Ref: 70
Dec 01Minoru Yamasaki, architect (World Trade Center, New York), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Willian Noel Moffat architect, is born.Ref: 5
1913
Apr 18Susan Bosence textile designer, is born.Ref: 5
May 20Henry Cadbury Brown architect, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 08Paul Félix Flemish architect (Sun Song), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Louise Blanchard Bethune, American architect, dies at age 57.Ref: 70
1914
Jan 30Louis Osman artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 31Louis Osman architect/artist/goldsmith, is born.Ref: 5
1915
May 17Joseph D Craggs electrical engineer, is born.Ref: 5
1916
May 08Gordon Scarrott engineer, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Leonard Manasseh architect, is born.Ref: 5
1917
Feb 25Alex Gordon architect, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26I[eoh] M[ing] Pei Canton China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 17Charles Eames, American designer and architect, is born.Ref: 70
1918
Mar 16Aldo E van Eyck Dutch architect (City Hall), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Jörn Utzon Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, dies at age 76.Ref: 70
1919
Feb 04Frank van Klingeren Dutch architect (De Meerpaal, Dronten), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Franc [Franklin E] Essed Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper), is born.Ref: 5
May 10Louis Sen A Kaw Surinam dam builder, is born.Ref: 5
1920
Jan 07Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington engineer/Industrialist, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Alexander Moulton English bicycle designer (folding bicycle), is born.Ref: 5
May 05John Hidalgo Moya architect/designer (Skylon), is born.Ref: 5
1921
Mar 03Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93.Ref: 5
May 12Henry Mackie designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, is born.Ref: 5
1922
Mar 30J F Coates naval architect, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 14Kevin Roche (architect: Kevin Roche & Associates: Columbus Circle Redevelopment, New York NY; NationsBank Plaza, Atlanta GA; Oakland Museum, Oakland CA), is born.Ref: 4
1923
Sep 11William Holabird, American architect, dies at age 68.Ref: 70
Dec 28Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and designer of the Eiffel Towe and helped design Statue of Libertyr, dies at age 91.Ref: 68
1924
Feb 16Henry Bacon, American architect and designer of the Lincoln Memorial, dies at age 57.Ref: 70
Apr 14Louis H. Sullivan, father of modern US architecture, gained fame for his design of the Chicago Auditorium Theater, dies at age 67.Ref: 2
Jun 07William Pirrie, Irish shipbuilder; built the Titanic, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Dec 04John Portman South Carolina, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 27Wouter Eijkelemboom Dutch architect (Holy-hospital, Vlaardingen), is born.Ref: 5
1925
Feb 22Raymond Joseph Cecil British architect, is born.Ref: 5
May 03Clément Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Jun 25Robert Venturi US, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 31Charles Moore, influential post-modern architect, is born.Ref: 2
Dec 20Frederick Edward Nicklin architect, is born.Ref: 5
1926
Jan 13Pamela M Cunnington English architect/author (Change of Use), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 16Jack Levy mechanical engineer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 11Patricia Tindaole England, architect, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10Antonio y Cornet Gaudi, Spanish architect, dies.Ref: 68
Jul 21Washington Roebling, American civil engineer; designed the Brooklyn Bridge, dies at age 89.Ref: 2
1927
Mar 15Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect, is born.Ref: 5
1928
Jan 21George Washington Goethals Chief Engineer of Panama Canal; dies at age 69.Ref: 4
Dec 10Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer, dies at age 60.Ref: 70
1929
Feb 28Frank O Gehry architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 23Michael Manser architect, is born.Ref: 5
1931
Mar 13Marc Dessauvage Flemish architect, is born.Ref: 5
1932
Mar 26Henry Martyn Leland, American engineer and manufacturer, dies at age 89.Ref: 70
1933
Aug 23Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, dies at age 62.Ref: 70
1934
Apr 09Oskar von Miller, German engineer; founded the Munich Museum of Science and Technology, dies at age 78.Ref: 4
May 17Cass Gilbert, American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building, dies at age 74.Ref: 2
1935
Feb 23Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44.Ref: 5
Jul 31Gustav Lindenthal, Austrian-born American civil engineer; designed the Hell Gate Bridge, dies at age 85.Ref: 70
1937
Mar 13Elihu Thomson, American engineer and inventor; founder of U.S. electrical industry, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Aug 27John R. Pope, American architect; designed the National Gallery of Art, dies at age 63.Ref: 2
1938
Apr 28Beverly F Albert architect, is born.Ref: 5
May 16Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer; designed the Golden Gate Bridge, dies at age 68.Ref: 70
Jun 02Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect and yacht designer, dies at age 90.Ref: 70
Jun 19Charles Gwathmey architect (5 Architects), is born.Ref: 5
1940
Feb 24Theo Bosch Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 27Peter Behrens German architect, dies.Ref: 5
Jul 28David Watson Taylor, American marine architect, dies at age 76.Ref: 5
1941
Dec 11Frank Conrad, the American electrical engineer whose innovations led to the establishment of the first radio station, dies.Ref: 70
1942
Mar 09Robert Bosch, German engineer and industrialist, dies at age 80.Ref: 70
Apr 28Ghislaine Hermanez architect, is born.Ref: 5
May 20Hector Guimard, French architect and furniture designer, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
1943
Feb 26Bob van Reeth Flemish architect, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 02John Frank Stevens, American chief civil engineer of the Panama Canal (1905-7), dies at age 90.Ref: 70
1945
Apr 18John Ambrose Fleming electrical engineer, dies.Ref: 5
1946
Mar 08Frederick Lanchester, English engineer, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1947
Apr 26Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops architectural adviser, is born.Ref: 5
May 10Paul Nicholas Young architect, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 08Victor, Baron Horta, Belgian architect, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
1948
Apr 23Richard Day engineer/development expert, is born.Ref: 5
1949
Jan 20Josephus T J Cuypers architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87.Ref: 5
May 06Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, dies at age 47.Ref: 70
Nov 18Frank Baldwin Jewett, American engineer; first president of Bell Laboratories (1925-40), dies at age 70.Ref: 70
1950
Jul 01Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect, dies at age 76.Ref: 70
Oct 22Karl (Guthe) Jansky, American engineer, dies at age 44.Ref: 70
1952
May 13Manfred Langer Austrian/Dutch disco builder, is born.Ref: 5
1954
Mar 28Kaare Klint, Danish architect and furniture designer, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
1956
Mar 13Daniel Jackling, American mining engineer and metallurgist, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Jun 14G. Donald Harrison, English-born American organ designer and builder, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
1957
Feb 02Julia Morgan, American architect, dies at age 85.Ref: 70
Mar 23Sir Patrick Abercrombie, English architect and town planner, dies at age 77.Ref: 2
Dec 25Frederick Law Olmsted US architect (Central Park), dies at 87.Ref: 5
1959
Apr 09Frank Lloyd Wright architect: Pennsylvania’s Falling Water, NYC’s Guggenheim Museum; “No house should be on any hill or on anything, it should be of the hill, belonging to it …”; dies at age 89.Ref: 17
May 20Alfred Schutz Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60.Ref: 5
Oct 05Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., is born.Ref: 2
1960
Feb 27Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58.Ref: 5
May 23Georges Claude engineer/inventor, dies.Ref: 5
Sep 14Sir Arthur Fleming, English engineer, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Dec 26Eduard Ludwig German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54.Ref: 5
1961
Sep 01Eero Saarinen, Finnish-born American architect, dies at age 51.Ref: 70
1962
Mar 02Charles-Jean baron de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian engineer, dies at 96.Ref: 5
Oct 04John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79.Ref: 5
1963
Mar 04Edouard Belin, French engineer and inventor, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Apr 05Jacobus JP Old architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73.Ref: 5
May 05Jacobus JP Old architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73.Ref: 5
1964
Nov 08Viljo Revell, Finnish architect, dies at age 54.Ref: 70
1965
Aug 27Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) architect: Chapel at Ronchamp, France, Philips Pavilion at Brussels World’s Fair, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard; author: Towards a New Architecture, Urbanisme; publisher: L’Esprit Nouveau; dies at age 77.Ref: 4
Sep 22Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born American engineer and designer of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
1967
May 09Elmar Berkovich Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies.Ref: 5
Aug 08William Spratling, American silver designer and architect, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Sep 06William Francis Gibbs, American naval architect; designed the World War ll Liberty ships, dies at age 80.Ref: 70
Dec 17Barry Byrne, American architect, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1969
Jul 05Walter Gropius, German architect; helped found the Bauhaus school, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Aug 17Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German-born architect who helped introduce the International Style to the United States, dies.Ref: 5
Sep 01Junzo Sakakura, Japanese architect, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
1970
Apr 16Richard Josef Neutra Austria/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78.Ref: 5
Sep 06Arthur Herrington, American engineer and manufacturer; developed the World War II jeep, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
1971
Jan 18Nora Stanton Barney, American civil engineer, architect and suffragist, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
Mar 24Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer, dies at age 69.Ref: 70
1972
Feb 11Jan Wils architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80.Ref: 5
1973
May 17Alexander J Kropholler Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91.Ref: 5
May 21Carlo E Gadda Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79.Ref: 5
1974
Jan 31Paul Haesaerts Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72.Ref: 5
Mar 17Louis I. Kahn, American architect, dies at age 73.Ref: 70
Mar 24Yoshida Isoya Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79.Ref: 5
Apr 06Willem Dudok Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89.Ref: 5
1976
May 11Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect/city planner, dies at age 78.Ref: 70
1977
Dec 07Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer; developed the first commercial color television, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1978
May 14William P. Lear, American engineer and industrialist, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Aug 06Edward Durell b. Stone, American architect, dies at age 76.Ref: 70
Aug 21Charles Eames, American designer and architect, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1979
Jan 09Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
Sep 15Gio Ponti, Italian architect, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1980
Feb 09Antoine Pompe Belgian architect, dies at 106.Ref: 5
Feb 14Victor Gruen, Austrian-born American architect and city planner, dies at age 76.Ref: 70
Jun 01A. C. Nielsen, American market research engineer, dies at age 82.Ref: 70
1981
Jan 05Paul Félix Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67.Ref: 5
Jul 01Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born American architect, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Sep 09Ed Greer, a Hughes Aircraft electronics engineer, goes to lunch and never returns. A party was held in his honor every year celebrating his escape from the corporate worldRef: 62
Dec 02Wallace K[irkman] Harrison US architect (UN), dies at 86.Ref: 5
1982
Jan 01Vladimir K Zworykin Russ/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies.Ref: 5
1983
Mar 15José Luis Sert Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80.Ref: 5
May 02Marius F Duintjer architect, dies.Ref: 5
Jul 01Buckminster Fuller, American engineer and architect, dies at age 88.Ref: 70
1984
Sep 10Jerome Hunsaker, American aeronautical engineer, dies at age 98.Ref: 70
1987
Jul 25Charles Stark Draper, American engineer, dies at age 85.Ref: 4
1988
Feb 15Gerard Holt architect, dies at 83.Ref: 5
1989
Mar 14Stephen Bechtel, American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp, dies at age 88.Ref: 70
1990
Jan 04Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer and photographer, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1991
Feb 11Oscar Nitzchke German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90.Ref: 5
Dec 20Andries D Copier Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies.Ref: 5
1993
Jan 22Alexander Bodon Hung-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86.Ref: 5
Apr 04Alfred Mosher Butts US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93.Ref: 5
May 18Pamela M Cunnington English architect/writer, dies at 67.Ref: 5
Dec 05Arthur Staal Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86.Ref: 5
1994
Jan 07Lewis Boddington aerospace Engineer, dies at 85.Ref: 5
Feb 12Donald Judd US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65.Ref: 5
Feb 21Frederick Edward Nicklin architect, dies at 68.Ref: 5
Apr 06Theo Bosch humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54.Ref: 5
May 05Hein Salomonson architect, dies at about 83.Ref: 5
May 17Willian Noel Moffat architect, dies at 82.Ref: 5
Dec 31Leigh Bowery designer, dies at 33.Ref: 5
1995
Jan 29Raymond Joseph Cecil British architect, dies at 69.Ref: 5
Feb 10Louis Sen A Kaw Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75.Ref: 5
Feb 15Nabila Diahnine Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33.Ref: 5
Apr 07Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect, dies at 68.Ref: 5
May 05Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington engineer, dies at 75.Ref: 5
Dec 14Eric Brown architect, dies at 84.Ref: 5
1996
Jan 01Arthur Rudolph rocket Engineer, dies at 89.Ref: 5
Jan 03Geoffrey Pardoe engineer, dies at 67.Ref: 5
Jan 12Edmund Happold engineer, dies at 65.Ref: 5
Feb 02Ray McIntire chemical engineer, dies at 77.Ref: 5
Mar 11Charles William Oatley electrical engineer, dies at 92.Ref: 5
Mar 26David Packard, American engineer; cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co., dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Mar 31Dante Giacosa engineer/designer, dies at 91.Ref: 5
Apr 18Piet Hein architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80.Ref: 5
Apr 18Robert William Paine architect, dies at 88.Ref: 5
Apr 21Rodney Meredith Thomas architect/painter, dies at 93.Ref: 5
Apr 21Zora Arkus-Duntov engineer, dies at 86.Ref: 5
May 08Serge Chermayeff architect/designer, dies at 95.Ref: 5
May 20Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101.Ref: 5
Dec 12Gerald Ian Lacey architect/town planner, dies at 70.Ref: 5
1997
Dec 06Edmund Charles Wolf Myers soldier/engineer, dies at 91.Ref: 5
Dec 14Robert Sutton electronics engineer, dies at 82.Ref: 5
1999
Oct 03Sony co-founder Akio Morita, the entrepreneur, engineer and savvy salesman who helped give new meaning to the words "Made in Japan," dies in Tokyo at age 78.Ref: 70
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