Gaudi y Cornet, Antoni (Antoni Gaudi)

Famous builder of organically-inspired and flamboyant Spanish churches, cathedrals and other buildings, including his still-unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Born hearing, but deafened by rheumatic and other illnesses in boyhood; died from injuries from being struck by an unheard streetcar in Barcelona; is buried in the crypt of Sagrada Familia.