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Industrialist - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1847-10-01 |
German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. |
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Industrialist - Notable Birthdays
Industrialist - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1685-01-07 |
Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761) |
1720-01-30 |
Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778) |
1768-05-03 |
Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838) |
1768-06-09 |
Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835) |
1790-04-30 |
John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist |
1791-02-12 |
Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union) |
1795-05-07 |
Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord) |
1795-12-22 |
Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile) |
1801-03-23 |
Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht) |
1812-09-12 |
Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886) |
1814-07-19 |
Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862) |
1814-08-10 |
Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890) |
1816-06-19 |
William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899) |
1822-02-09 |
Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist |
1823-06-30 |
Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901) |
1826-12-08 |
Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist |
1827-08-22 |
Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906) |
1829-03-19 |
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901) |
1833-03-09 |
Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899) |
1835-11-25 |
Andrew Carnegie, Dunfermline, Scottish/American industrialist/philanthropist |
1836-03-30 |
Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician |
1838-12-11 |
Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG) |
1839-03-03 |
Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904) |
1840-03-16 |
Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931) |
1842-06-11 |
Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934) |
1842-12-03 |
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899) |
1843-11-25 |
Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919) |
1853-01-16 |
Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin) |
1855-05-08 |
John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), West Chicago, Illinois, USA, American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing |
1858-02-28 |
Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries) |
1860-12-31 |
Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937) |
1861-09-23 |
Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942) |
1861-09-30 |
William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932) |
1863-06-04 |
Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician |
1863-07-30 |
Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947) |
1866-05-05 |
Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938) |
1866-08-13 |
Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945) |
1868-12-20 |
Harvey Firestone, Columbia, Ohio, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road, (d. 1938) |
1870-12-25 |
Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965) |
1880-06-21 |
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941) |
1881-01-13 |
Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961) |
1882-04-28 |
Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist |
1882-05-09 |
Henry J. Kaiser, Sprout Brook NY, ship builder and industrialist (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam) |
1883-12-27 |
Cyrus S. Eaton, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate (d. 1979) |
1891-03-12 |
George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954) |
1894-04-10 |
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983) |
1894-11-27 |
Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989) |
1895-01-04 |
Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982) |
1898-05-21 |
Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum) |
1899-03-14 |
K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992) |
1901-07-13 |
Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen) |
1901-09-04 |
William Lyons, Blackpool, British industrialist (Jaguar cars), (d. 1985) |
1904-07-29 |
J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993) |
1907-02-06 |
Sam Green, industrialist/inventor |
1908-04-11 |
Masura Ibuka, industrialist |
1908-06-30 |
Monica Maurice, industrialist |
1908-09-01 |
Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist |
1909-08-10 |
Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner |
1910-02-12 |
Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business) |
1911-01-29 |
Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) |
1914-03-22 |
Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], Plymouth, Devon, English industrialist |
1914-12-25 |
James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007) |
1916-05-08 |
João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist |
1917-12-27 |
Earl of Inchcape, English large landowner/industrialist (P&O) |
1920-01-07 |
Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist |
1920-07-08 |
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995) |
1921-04-13 |
Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, industrialist |
1922-01-20 |
Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative) |
1923-05-11 |
Lord Gordon "Gordy" White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire |
1927-02-02 |
Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist |
1931-08-20 |
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th) |
1931-11-13 |
Anthony Jacobs, English industrialist (BSM) |
1934-05-10 |
William Lithgow, Scottish industrialist/multi-millionaire |
1934-12-14 |
Petrus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist |
1937-12-28 |
Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist |
1939-10-05 |
Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist |
1942-01-09 |
Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung |
1943-03-02 |
Gordon Black, English industrialist |
1944-09-04 |
Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist (TCG Materials) |
1944-11-14 |
Aditya Biria, industrialist |
1950-06-15 |
Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist |
1957-11-06 |
Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist |
1970-05-30 |
Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist |
Industrialist - Notable Weddings
Industrialist - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1856-06-05 |
Industrialist Samuel Colt (41) weds philanthropist Elizabeth Hart Jarvis (29) |
1888-04-11 |
Industrialist Henry Ford (24) weds Clara Jane Bryant (22) in Greenfield Township, Michigan |
1907-04-08 |
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (24) weds Bess Fosburgh in Boston, Massachusetts |
1928-03-06 |
Industrialist Oskar Schindler (19) weds Emilie Schindler (20) in Svitavy, Czech Republic |
1951-04-10 |
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (68) weds nurse Alyce Chester |
1957-07-28 |
"Wuthering Heights" actress Merle Oberon (46) weds Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai |
Industrialist - Notable Deaths
Industrialist - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1652-06-19 |
Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 |
1761-06-02 |
Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685) |
1778-03-07 |
Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720) |
1792-08-03 |
Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732) |
1806-03-17 |
David Dale, industrialist & philanthropist, dies |
1817-08-07 |
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739) |
1838-10-01 |
Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768) |
1841-02-13 |
Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45 |
1878-02-18 |
Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76 |
1879-12-06 |
Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814) |
1883-04-04 |
Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791) |
1892-12-06 |
E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 |
1895-07-19 |
Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73 |
1897-10-19 |
George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831) |
1899-09-17 |
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842) |
1899-10-30 |
William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816) |
1901-10-19 |
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829) |
1911-08-09 |
John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing, dies following an unsuccessful operation to remove a throat tumor at 56 |
1913-01-18 |
Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49 |
1915-06-20 |
Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies |
1919-08-11 |
Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83 |
1930-10-15 |
Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866) |
1931-11-11 |
Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840) |
1932-03-12 |
Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide |
1932-03-14 |
George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), shoots himself in the heart at 77 |
1934-07-12 |
Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877) |
1937-03-11 |
Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860) |
1937-05-23 |
John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla |
1937-05-23 |
John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97 |
1937-08-26 |
Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82 |
1938-05-09 |
Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866) |
1942-03-12 |
Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861) |
1947-04-08 |
Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83 |
1955-06-11 |
Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered |
1957-01-25 |
Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873) |
1964-02-18 |
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907) |
1967-07-30 |
Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59 |
1967-08-24 |
Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85 |
1972-03-29 |
J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate |
1979-05-09 |
Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, dies at 95 |
1982-10-17 |
Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47 |
1983-01-11 |
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894) |
1989-04-27 |
Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894) |
1992-12-13 |
K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899) |
1993-11-29 |
JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89 |
1995-08-31 |
Hajime Miterai, industrialist, dies at 56 |
1995-09-20 |
Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87 |
1995-10-01 |
Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50 |
1996-01-21 |
Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88 |
1996-05-04 |
Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87 |
1996-10-18 |
Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71 |
1996-11-30 |
Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89 |
2001-03-21 |
Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915) |
2002-04-27 |
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921) |
2002-04-29 |
Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936) |
2007-08-29 |
James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914) |
2008-07-21 |
Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist, dies at 94 |
2016-06-12 |
Leading industrialist Stanley Lau Chin-ho dies of heart attack aged 66 |
