José Echegaray
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in 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".
19 April 1832
Born on the same birth day (19 April): Antonio Carluccio • Françoise Rosay • George St Lo • Ken Carpenter (discus thrower) • Rawya Ateya • Rhea Silberta • Richard Hughes (British writer) • Richard von Mises • Roger Sherman • Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet • Troy Polamalu
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