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Marta Pessarrodona (born 1941), Spanish poet, literary critic, essayist, biographer; Francesc Pi i Margall (1824–1901), romanticist writer who was briefly president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic; Berta Piñán (born 1963), writer, poet, politician; Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), novelist, essayist and poet, master of Conceptism
Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2008-02-28 Maximo Carrizo: American soccer player association football player: United States: Máximo Augusto: 2007-02-28 Fin Cartwright: English footballer association football player: 2007-02-28 Toa Sasaki: Japanese skateboarder (born 2007) 2007-02-28 Momchil ...
1562 – An attempt by François, Duke of Guise, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy, France, turned into a massacre, resulting in 50 dead, and starting the French Wars of Religion.
This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Latin America or Spain. [1] The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": [2] Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American ...
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born. 1478: The Spanish Inquisition was founded. 1479: War of the Castilian Succession: The war ended. 20 January: The reign of Ferdinand began, marking the foundation of the Kingdom of Spain. 4 September: By the Treaty of Alcáçovas, Portugal recognized Spanish control of the Canary Islands. 1492: 12 October
1991 – William Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltar-born English mathematician, physicist, and academic (b. 1909) 1993 – Mel Bradford, American author and critic (b. 1934) 1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss (b. 1910) 1993 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1903)
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 1965), one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. [19] Josep Comas i Solà (1868–1937), astronomer, discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solá and 11 asteroids, and in 1907 observed limb darkening of Saturn's moon Titan (the first evidence that the body had an ...
2014 – Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1918) 2014 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930) 2014 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (b. 1954) [139] 2015 – Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and songwriter (b. 1922)