On this day
08
July

Philip Johnson, Robert Opel

Born: Philip Johnson (1906)
Died: Robert Opel (1979)

Born on this day

08JulBorn 1906120th birthday

Philip Johnson

The architect of the Glass House shaped modern architecture for seventy years – a career with a dark chapter in the 1930s.

Died on this day

08JulDied 197947th anniversary of death

Robert Opel

He streaked naked across the Oscars stage in 1974 – and later ran one of the first galleries for gay erotic art, showing Tom of Finland and Mapplethorpe.