Stanley Chapman
Stanley Chapman was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included theatre and 'pataphysics. He was involved with founding the National Theatre of London, was a member of Oulipo of the year 1961, founder of the Outrapo and a member also of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique, the London Institute of 'Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society. In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines Listen and Stand and contributed translations to Chanticleer, a magazine edited by the poet Ewart Milne. His English translation of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau. Stanley Chapman, English architect and author (d. 2009)
15 September 1925
Born on the same birth date (15 September 1925): Carlo Rambaldi • Erika Köth
Born on the same birth day (15 September): Antonio Ascari • Claude McKay • Jan Ernst Matzeliger • Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval • Karsten Solheim • Queen Letizia of Spain • Rodney Eyles • William Howard Taft
Born in the same month (September 1925): Boris Tchaikovsky • Denis Twitchett • Dorothy Loudon • Erika Köth • Harry Somers • John List (murderer) • Justin Kaplan • Norm Dussault • P. Bhanumathi • Paul MacCready • Peter Sellers • Roy Brown (blues musician) • Silvana Pampanini