Updated at February 4, 2023 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | I. M. Pei |
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Birthdate | April 26, 1917 |
Birth Place | Guangzhou, China |
Age (in 2023) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Architect |
I. M. Pei is best known as Architect who has born on April 26, 1917 in Guangzhou, China. Currently, I. M. Pei is 105 years, 9 months and 8 days old. I. M. Pei will celebrate 106th birthday on Wednesday, 26th of April 2023. Below the countdown to I. M. Pei upcoming birthday.
Chinese-American architect of sleek 20th century buildings. He was inspired by the gardens of Suzhou and was considered to be the Master of Modern Architecture. He was also controversial, especially after he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for Paris' Musée du Louvre in the early 1980s.
He went to a school in Shanghai that allowed students only one-half of a day a month of free time. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design after relocating to the United States in 1935.
He founded I.M. Pei & Associates in 1955 after working for seven years under notable New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf; his organization would become known as I.M. Pei & Partners in 1966, then Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 1989.
He and Eileen Loo were married in 1939; she was his introduction to the GSD community. He fathered four children with her, including future architects Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei.
He became friends with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both famed Bauhaus architects.
I. M. Pei is 105 years old today.
I. M. Pei was born on April 26, 1917 in Guangzhou, China.
I. M. Pei zodiac sign is Taurus.
I. M. Pei was best known as Architect.
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Below are historical events that coincided with I. M. Pei's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. |
1964 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. |
1966 | The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15-200 are killed. |
1966 | A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. |
1970 | The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. |
1981 | Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. |
1982 | Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. |
1986 | A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. |
1989 | The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. |
1989 | People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests. |
1991 | Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. |
1994 | China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
2002 | Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
2005 | Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). |
2018 | American comedian Bill Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault. |
1988 | The birth of Ben Spina, Australian rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of Gareth Evans, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Melvin Ingram, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012) |
1991 | The birth of Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Peter Handscomb, Australian Cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Will Heard, British singer and songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer |
1991 | The birth of Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian/Bosnian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Judge, American baseball player |
1994 | The birth of Daniil Kvyat, Russian race car driver |
2005 | The death of Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917) |
2007 | The death of Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921) |
2009 | The death of Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930) |
2010 | The death of Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942) |
2011 | The death of Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) |
2012 | The death of Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1944) |
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