Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Eero Saarinen |
---|---|
Birthdate | August 20, 1910 |
Birth Place | Kirkkonummi, Finland |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Architect |
Eero Saarinen is best known as Architect who has born on August 20, 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland. Currently, Eero Saarinen is 114 years, 2 months and 13 days old. Eero Saarinen will celebrate 115th birthday on Wednesday, 20th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Eero Saarinen upcoming birthday.
Led the avant-garde architectural movement towards sweeping, arching, and simple curves in the U.S. He designed furniture like the Grasshopper lounge chair and ottoman, the Womb chair and ottoman, the Womb settee, side and arm chairs, and the Tulip or Pedestal group.
He developed a close friendship with fellow designers Charles and Ray Eames while attending school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where his father was a teacher. He began studying sculpture in 1929 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. He also attended the Yale School of Architecture until 1934.
He and his father designed the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, which became the inspiration for similar designs for decades to come; they were widely acclaimed for their proposal for the mall in Washington, D.C.
He was born in Finland to the famed architect Eliel Saarinen. He and his father moved to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, when he was 13. He was named a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940. He fathered two children, Eric and Susan, with sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen. He married his second wife, The New York Times art critic Aline Bernstein Louchheim, in 1954, with whom he fathered a son, Eames.Â
He and his family were friends with fellow famed architect Florence Knoll.
Eero Saarinen is 114 years old today.
Eero Saarinen was born on August 20, 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland.
Eero Saarinen zodiac sign is Leo.
Eero Saarinen was best known as Architect.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Eero Saarinen's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Eero Saarinen's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
---|---|
1991 | Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood. |
1992 | In India, Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) was included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Government. |
1993 | After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. |
1995 | The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India. |
1997 | Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped. |
1998 | The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. |
1998 | U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
2002 | A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. |
2006 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai. |
2007 | China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan. |
2008 | Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash. |
2012 | A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people. |
2014 | Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day. |
2016 | Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey. |
2020 | Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. |
1990 | The birth of Venelin Filipov, Bulgarian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Fabien Jarsalé, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Bradley Klahn, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer |
1991 | The birth of Marko Djokovic, Serbian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Jyrki Jokipakka, Finnish hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Matt Eisenhuth, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Carolina Horta, Brazilian beach volleyball player |
1992 | The birth of Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actor |
1992 | The birth of Deniss Rakels, Latvian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Callum Skinner, Scottish track cyclist |
1993 | The birth of Tonisha Rock-Yaw, Barbadian netball player |
1996 | The birth of Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player |
2003 | The birth of Prince Gabriel of Belgium |
2013 | The death of John W. Morris, American general (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Ted Post, American director and screenwriter (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (b. 1983) |
2014 | The death of Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and academic (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter and educator (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Frank Wilkes, Australian soldier and politician (b. 1922) |
2017 | The death of Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Uri Avnery, Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (b. 1923) |
2021 | The death of Igor Vovkovinskiy, Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (b. 1982) |
Social Media
Eero Saarinen on Facebook | |
Eero Saarinen on Twitter | |
Eero Saarinen on Instagram | |
Youtube | Eero Saarinen on Youtube |
Tiktok | Eero Saarinen on Tiktok |
Wikipedia | Eero Saarinen on Wikipedia |
Website | Eero Saarinen's Webiste |
Similar Architect
Month
Professions
Zodiacs
Birthplaces
Today
Copyright © 2020 BirthdayDBs.com