who is john jacob astor iv?
John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, in Rhinebeck, New York. He became active in real estate development, building the Astoria section of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1897. He built several other notable New York City hotels, including the St. ... Astor drowned in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.