Basil Spence

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.

13 August 1907

Born on the same birth day (13 August): Annie Oakley • Charles "Buddy" Rogers • Dave "Baby" Cortez • Dave Days • Feargal Sharkey • Gerrit van Look • Gleb W. Derujinsky • Hayato Matsuo • Lennon Stella • Louis François, Prince of Conti • Marty Turco • Murtz Jaffer • Nico Assumpção • Regis Toomey • Seana Kofoed • Sebastian Stan • Suzanne Muldowney • Wilfried Hilker • Wilmer Mizell

Born in the same month (August 1907): Albert Kotin • Altiero Spinelli • Augustus Hawkins • Benjamin Sheares • Benny Carter • Bertha Parker Pallan • Boy Charlton • Eric Shipton • Ernesto Geisel • Gladys Bentley • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi • Jimmy Steele (Irish republican) • Joe Besser • Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) • Leonor Fini • Mary Hamman • Ramon Magsaysay • Ted à Beckett • Valter Biiber • Yang Shangkun