Cantinflas

Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known by the stage name Cantinflas, was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain as a popular icon. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero.

12 August 1911

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Ben Sealey • C. E. M. Joad • Cecil B. DeMille • Ernestine von Kirchsberg • François Hollande • Jayakumar • Jule Niemeier • Klaas-Jan Huntelaar • Mary Roberts Rinehart • Matt Clement • Maurice Fernandes • Michael Ian Black • Miloš Jakeš • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq • Rebecca Gayheart • Sir Mix-a-Lot

Born in the same month (August 1911): Alex McCrindle • Amelia Boynton Robinson • Anna Terruwe • Betty Robinson • Constance Heaven • Eddie Futch • Edward Brongersma • J. V. Cunningham • Jackie Ormes • Joseph Luns • Klára Dán von Neumann • Martin Sandberger • Otto Binder • Robert Taylor (American actor) • Rosetta LeNoire • Võ Nguyên Giáp • William Alfred Fowler