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Daniel Burnham

1846 - 1912

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Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced." A successful Chicago architect, he was selected as Director of Works for the 1892–93 World's Columbian Exposition, colloquially referred to as "The White City". He had prominent roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the Plan of Chicago, and plans for Manila, Baguio and downtown Washington, D.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Burnham has received more than 1,105,439 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Daniel Burnham is the 388th most popular architect (down from 356th in 2019), the 5,979th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,269th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Daniel Burnham ranks 388 out of 518. Before him are Alberto Palacio, Shelley McNamara, Kaare Klint, Paolo Soleri, Vannoccio Biringuccio, and Massimiliano Fuksas. After him are Aurelio Galfetti, Max Berg, Vasily Stasov, Kunio Maekawa, Walter Burley Griffin, and Giuseppe Piermarini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Daniel Burnham ranks 92. Before him are Paul Déroulède, Sophie Menter, Giulio Bizzozero, Anna Katharine Green, Ignaz Brüll, and Turhan Pasha Përmeti. After him are Zygmunt Noskowski, Svatopluk Čech, Kate Greenaway, Karol Olszewski, Pieter Cort van der Linden, and Elizabeth Thompson. Among people deceased in 1912, Daniel Burnham ranks 99. Before him are Cesare Arzelà, Siri von Essen, Arthur MacArthur Jr., José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, Marc-Émile Ruchet, and Lawrence Oates. After him are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Felix Dahn, Anna Filosofova, Iakob Gogebashvili, Pencho Slaveykov, and Heinrich Gerber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Burnham ranks 5,979 out of 20,380. Before him are Harold Agnew (1921), Mary-Claire King (1946), John Agar (1921), Richard N. Frye (1920), John Randolph (1915), and Michael J. Pollard (1939). After him are Emily Kinney (1985), Daniel Noboa (1987), Carol Morris (1936), Mena Suvari (1979), Mel Sheppard (1883), and Susan George (1934).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Daniel Burnham ranks 22. Before him are Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Michael Graves (1934), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822). After him are Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), Robert Moses (1888), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), and Henry Hobson Richardson (1838).

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