Sunday, April 19, 2015

April 19

Born:
1832 - José Echegary
Spanish engineer, statesman and dramatist, co-winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama."



1900 - Richard Hughes
British novelist, poet and playwright.




Died:
1824 - Lord Byron
1882 - Charles Darwin
1989 - Daphne du Maurier
1998 - Octavio Paz
2009 - J.G. Ballard
2013 - E.L. Konigsberg

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