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Alfred Mosher Butts

1899 - 1993

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Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Mosher Butts is the 471st most popular architect (up from 490th in 2019), the 9,409th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,545th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 471 out of 518Before him are Robert Moses, Max Taut, Andrei Stackenschneider, James Wyatt, Ryue Nishizawa, and William Adam. After him are Rudolph Schindler, Mikhail Zemtsov, Gunnar Birkerts, James Gibbs, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, and Otto Bartning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 274Before him are Anders Petersen, Ilse Bing, Øystein Ore, Hendrik Marsman, Alden Sanborn, and Jan Lechoń. After him are James Wong Howe, George O'Brien, Lyman Lemnitzer, Aline MacMahon, Juliusz Schauder, and Alan Washbond. Among people deceased in 1993, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 247Before him are Innes Ireland, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Ihor Turchyn, Héctor Freschi, Lisa De Leeuw, and Rıfat Ilgaz. After him are Edera Cordiale, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Helmut Braselmann, Jeanne Sauvé, Tahirou Congacou, and Danny Blanchflower.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 9,411 out of 20,380Before him are George Thorogood (1950), Daniel Henney (1979), Jane Irwin Harrison (1804), John L. Phillips (1951), Bill Robinson (1877), and Robert Pearce (1908). After him are Alfred W. Crosby (1931), James Joseph Dresnok (1941), Chuck Mangione (1940), Ray Allen (1975), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), and C. I. Scofield (1843).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 28Before him are Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), and Robert Moses (1888). After him are Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), Richard Morris Hunt (1827), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), John Russell Pope (1874), Maya Lin (1959), and Andrew Jackson Downing (1815).