Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gerard Pieter Adolfs |
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Birthdate | January 02, 1898 |
Birth Place | Indonesia |
Age (in 2024) | 126 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Architect |
Gerard Pieter Adolfs is best known as Architect who has born on January 02, 1898 in Indonesia. Currently, Gerard Pieter Adolfs is 126 years, 10 months and 21 days old. Gerard Pieter Adolfs will celebrate 127th birthday on Thursday, 2nd of January 2025. Below the countdown to Gerard Pieter Adolfs upcoming birthday.
Dutch East Indies painter and architect known as the Wizard of Light; he favored Java, Bali, Japan, and North Africa as settings for his work.
He studied architecture in Amsterdam, designing houses in Yogyakarta, Surakarta, and Surabaya following his graduation. However, he would become known as a graphic artist and advertising illustrator.
His studies were located in Florence, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Prag, and Paris, where he collaborated with the Japanese artist, Tsuguharu Foujita.
His father, Gerardus Cornelis Adolfs, was also an artist and architect, who inspired his son's artistic tastes.
He and Salvador Dali both became world-renowned, albeit vastly different painters.
Gerard Pieter Adolfs is 126 years old today.
Gerard Pieter Adolfs was born on January 02, 1898 in Indonesia.
Gerard Pieter Adolfs zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Gerard Pieter Adolfs was best known as Architect.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gerard Pieter Adolfs's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1955 | Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered. |
1959 | Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. |
1963 | Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. |
1967 | Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. |
1971 | The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. |
1974 | United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. |
1975 | At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. |
1975 | The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. |
1976 | The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. |
1978 | On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. |
1981 | One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. |
1988 | Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. |
1991 | Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. |
1993 | Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. |
2004 | Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. |
1974 | The birth of Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer |
1975 | The birth of Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player |
1975 | The birth of Dax Shepard, American actor |
1977 | The birth of Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster |
1977 | The birth of Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player |
1979 | The birth of Jonathan Greening, English footballer |
1981 | The birth of Maxi RodrÃguez, Argentinian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Kate Bosworth, American actress |
1987 | The birth of Robert Milsom, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player |
1992 | The birth of Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Bryson Tiller, American singer and rapper |
1998 | The birth of Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer |
1999 | The birth of Fernando TatÃs Jr., American baseball player |
2014 | The death of Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Gisela Mota Ocampo, mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (b. 1982) |
2017 | The death of Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (b. 1950) |
2018 | The death of Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942) |
2022 | The death of Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician (b. 1944) |
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