Gunnar Asplund

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture.

22 September 1885

Born on the same birth date (22 September 1885): Ben Chifley • Erich von Stroheim

Born on the same birth day (22 September): Alexei Ramírez • Alma Thomas • Beth Catlin • Deborah Lavin • Don Rutherford • Johnny Valentine • Ken Vandermark • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis • Norma McCorvey • Paul Hugh Emmett • Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin • Shigeru Yoshida • Tom Felton • Toni Basil • Tự Đức • Wilhelm Keitel • Yoo Chae-yeong

Born in the same month (September 1885): Antonio Bacci • Artur Lemba • Ben Chifley • Carl Van Doren • D. H. Lawrence • Enrico Mizzi • Uzeyir Hajibeyov