Pierre Charles L'Enfant

Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant was an American-French artist, professor, and military engineer who in 1791 designed the baroque styled plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. His work is known today as the L'Enfant Plan which inspired plans for other world capitals such as Brasilia, New Delhi and Canberra. In the United States, plans for Detroit and Indianapolis took inspiration from the plan for Washington, DC.

2 August 1754

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Alex Jesaulenko • Bertalan Farkas • Carroll O'Connor • Holling C. Holling • John Dexter • John W. Snow • Lee Mavers • Pete de Freitas • Ruth Nelson (actress) • Tony Amonte • Vitalia Diatchenko

Born in the same month (August 1754): Banastre Tarleton • François de Chasseloup-Laubat • Hipólito Ruiz López • Louis XVI • William Murdoch