Mário de Andrade

Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.

9 October 1893

Born on the same birth day (9 October): Al Jourgensen • Brian Lamb • Carling Bassett-Seguso • E. Howard Hunt • Ellen Wheeler • Heinz Fischer • Jayden Hodges • Prince Edward, Duke of Kent • Sarah Lovell • Stephen Gionta • Tawfiq al-Hakim

Born in the same month (October 1893): Alice Dalgliesh • Carol II of Romania • Clarence Williams (musician) • Cliff Friend • George Ohsawa • Lillian Gish • Miloš Crnjanski • Raffaele Bendandi • Roland Freisler