Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bill Lucas |
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Birthdate | December 31, 1924 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Architect |
Bill Lucas is best known as Architect who has born on December 31, 1924 in Australia. Currently, Bill Lucas is 99 years, 11 months and 11 days old. Bill Lucas will celebrate 100th birthday on Tuesday, 31st of December 2024. Below the countdown to Bill Lucas upcoming birthday.
Designed the famous Glass House and other houses in Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia. Prevented the historical Paddington suburb, home of Juniper Hall and Centennial Park, from being completely renovated through the establishment of The Paddington Society.
He served in the RAAF Air Crew for three years, after being drafted in 1943. He studied architecture at the University of Sydney and graduated with honors. He was a student of Visual Arts at the East Sydney Technical University.
He was a part-time lecturer at the University of New South Wales' School of Architecture for 10 years.
His first home was designed with his brother, Neville. He married Ruth Harvey, with whom he designed the Glass House that became their home. They, along with Neville Gruzman and Tony Moore, had entered the design competition for the Sydney Opera House.
He and Frank Lloyd Wright both had a profound impact on architecture, albeit across different generations.
Bill Lucas is 99 years old today.
Bill Lucas was born on December 31, 1924 in Australia.
Bill Lucas zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Bill Lucas was best known as Architect.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Bill Lucas's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny. |
1998 | The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. |
1999 | The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor. |
1999 | The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties. |
1999 | Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan. |
2000 | The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium. |
2004 | The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670Â ft). |
2009 | Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. |
2010 | Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages. |
2011 | NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon. |
2014 | A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. |
2015 | A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries. |
2018 | Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia. |
2019 | The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2020 | The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine. |
1984 | The birth of Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer |
1985 | The birth of Jonathan Horton, American gymnast |
1985 | The birth of Jan Smit, Dutch singer and television host |
1986 | The birth of Nate Freiman, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Kade Snowden, Australian rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Danny Holla, Dutch footballer |
1987 | The birth of Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of ND Stevenson, American cartoonist |
1992 | The birth of Amy Cure, Australian track cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Karl Kruuda, Estonian racing driver |
1995 | The birth of Gabby Douglas, American gymnast |
2000 | The birth of Alycia Parks, American tennis player |
2001 | The birth of Katie Volynets, American tennis player |
2013 | The death of James Avery, American actor (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953) |
2013 | The death of Bob Grant, American radio host (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Edward Herrmann, American actor (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Abdullah Hussain, Malaysian author (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Norm Phelps, American author and activist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of S. Arthur Spiegel, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, British soldier and politician (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of William Christopher, American actor (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Kader Khan, Indian actor (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Betty White, American actress, comedian and producer (b. 1922) |
2022 | The death of Pope Benedict XVI, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope (2005-2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977-1982) (b. 1927) |
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