Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Wellborn Root |
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Birthdate | January 10, 1850 |
Birth Place | Lumpkin, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 174 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Architect |
John Wellborn Root is best known as Architect who has born on January 10, 1850 in Lumpkin, GA. Currently, John Wellborn Root is 174 years, 10 months and 11 days old. John Wellborn Root will celebrate 175th birthday on Friday, 10th of January 2025. Below the countdown to John Wellborn Root upcoming birthday.
19th-century American architect whose buildings have been designated National Historic and Chicago Landmarks and also have been entered into the National Register of Historic Places. Known for co-founding the Chicago School style of architecture. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1958.
He graduated from New York University in 1869 and first worked with James Renwick, Jr., then with John Butler Snook. His time with Snook allowed him to serve as a construction supervisor on Warren and Wetmore's Grand Central Terminal.
He died of pneumonia while working on plans for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
His father, the famed planter Sidney Root, sent him and two other boys to England after Atlanta fell to the Union Army during the Civil War. His maternal uncle was Marshall Johnson Wellborn, after whom he was named. His son, John Root Jr., also practiced architecture in Chicago.
He was Daniel Burnham's partner.
John Wellborn Root is 174 years old today.
John Wellborn Root was born on January 10, 1850 in Lumpkin, GA.
John Wellborn Root zodiac sign is Capricorn.
John Wellborn Root was best known as Architect.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Wellborn Root's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1946 | The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. |
1954 | BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. |
1966 | Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. |
1972 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. |
1980 | The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids. |
1981 | Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments |
1984 | Holy See-United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. |
1985 | Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. |
1990 | Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. |
2000 | Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people. |
2007 | A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. |
2012 | A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others. |
2013 | More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan. |
2015 | A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people. |
2019 | A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered. |
1982 | The birth of Julien Brellier, French footballer |
1982 | The birth of Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer |
1984 | The birth of Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer |
1984 | The birth of Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper |
1984 | The birth of Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress |
1986 | The birth of Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer |
1988 | The birth of Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner |
1990 | The birth of Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1990 | The birth of Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Matthew Dufty, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Patrick Herbert, New Zealand rugby league player |
1997 | The birth of Blake Lawrie, Australian rugby league player |
2014 | The death of Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (b. 1994) |
2015 | The death of Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1935) |
2017 | The death of Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (b. 1911) |
2020 | The death of Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (b. 1940) |
2022 | The death of Joyce Eliason, American television personality (b. 1934) |
2022 | The death of Robert Durst, American real estate heir and convicted murderer (b. 1943) |
2023 | The death of Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1944) |
2023 | The death of Constantine II of Greece, King of Greece (1964-1973) (b. 1940) |
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