Portrait of Elmar Lohk

Birthday profile

Elmar Lohk

Elmar Lohk, Russian-Estonian architect (died 1963)

Born
June 15, 1901
Died
February 11, 1963
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1901

About Elmar Lohk

Elmar Lohk was an Estonian architect and tennis player. Many of his buildings in Tallinn are now valued as great examples of 1930s architecture, for example, the prominent Scandic Hotel Palace on Freedom Square. His creation can be categorised as functionalism with some influence of Chicago school and traditional art. Lohk won several prizes for architecture in international competitions: the Officer's Casino in Kaunas, Tallinn Town Hall and the Tallinn Art Museum. In 1944, Lohk won the first prize in the competition for Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. He also played tennis and has won Estonian Championships titles in doubles.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

The world when Elmar Lohk was born

Elmar Lohk was born in 1901. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1901

  • Best-selling book"The Crisis" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst American League season
  • Top headlinePresident McKinley assassinated — Roosevelt becomes president
  • Technology milestoneFirst transatlantic radio signal by Marconi
  • World population~1.61B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam McKinley / Theodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population77.6M

1901 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Elmar Lohk's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19012026
Population77.6M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Prabook, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.