Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Josep Puig i Cadafalch was a Spanish Modernista architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, and a politician who had a significant role in the development of Catalan institutions. He was the architect of the Casa Martí, which became a place of ideas, projects and social gatherings for such well-known Catalans as Santiago Rusiñol and Ramon Casas.

17 October 1867

Born on the same birth day (17 October): Alan Jackson • Aureliano Maestre de San Juan • Francisco Flores Pérez • Ivan Saenko • Kenneth Omeruo • Kostas Tsartsaris • Mark Peel (historian) • Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza • Miguel Delibes • Pat McCrory • Saki Kumagai • Sharon Leal • Stephen Kovacevich • Sydney Chapman (politician)

Born in the same month (October 1867): Jacques Inaudi • Joseph Beech • Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki • Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa • Masaoka Shiki • Pierre Bonnard • Sister Nivedita