Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners

Norman Foster

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of the Norman Foster Foundation, established to "promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future".

Born

1935

June 1

Died

Living

Era

1930s

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1935 Born

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1252 Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1298 Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1412 Treaty of Lubowla: The royal gathering continues in Buda. It is one of the largest and most magnificent royal meetings ever held in medieval Buda with Sigismund of Hungary as host and Wladyslaw II Jagiello as guest of honor. A large feast and grand tournament is held with over 40.000 nobles and 2000 knights.
1495 A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

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The world in 1935

When Norman arrived

april 1 India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
april 11 Stresa Front: Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
april 14 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
april 23 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

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Also born on June 1

Andy Griffith 1926–2012 American actor, singer, and producer (born 1926) Christopher Lasch 1932–1994 American historian and critic (born 1932) Colin Blakemore 1944– British neurobiologist (died 2022) Danielle Harris 1977– American actress Dean Chance 1941–2015 American baseball player and manager (died 2015) Elena Mukhina 1960–2006 Russian gymnast (born 1960) Frederica von Stade 1945– American soprano and actress Lorraine Moller 1955– New Zealand runner Nambaryn Enkhbayar 1958– Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia

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Brian Clough 1935–2004 English footballer and manager (died 2004) Charles Grodin 1935–2021 American actor and talk show host (died 2021) Daniel Quinn 1935– American author and environmentalist (died 2018) David Prowse 1935–2020 English actor (died 2020) Dennis Potter 1935– English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1994) Donald Lynden-Bell 1935–2018 English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018) Edward Said 1935– Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003) Elvis Presley 1935–1977 American singer and actor (born 1935) Felipe Alou 1935– Dominican-American baseball player, coach, and manager

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