Gabriela Mistral

Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.

7 April 1889

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Babatunde Olatunji • Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou • Dragan Bogavac • Duncan Armstrong • Emerson Hyndman • Florian Schneider • Francis Xavier • Gino Severini • Hodding Carter III • Jerry Brown • Julia Phillips • Mitch Daniels • Randall Davidson • Ricky Watters • Rozalie Hirs • Simon Woolford • Yves Rocher

Born in the same month (April 1889): A. Philip Randolph • Adolf Hitler • Adrian Boult • Albert Jean Amateau • António de Oliveira Salazar • Charlie Chaplin • Grigoraș Dinicu • Herbert Yardley • Jessie Street • K. B. Hedgewar • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Makhanlal Chaturvedi • Marcel Boussac • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Paul Karrer • Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland • Thomas Hart Benton (painter) • Tonny Kessler • Vicente Ferreira Pastinha