August 9

August 10, 2024 - Reading time: 10 minutes

Saints Days - Candida Maria of Jesus, Firmus and Rusticus

1939 - formation of the Second Francoist Government of Spain (1939-1941).
1992 - closing ceremony of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992.

Births
1484 - Luisa de Medrano, poet, philosopher and scholar. She was born to Diego López de Medrano and Magdalena Bravo de Lagunas. She taught in Latin at the University of Salamanca, and replaced Antonio de Nebrija. She wrote poems and philosophy, though her work has been lost. The Institute Lucia de Medrano was named after her (d. 1527)

Luisa de Medrano

1672 - Jusepe Ximénez, organist and composer.
1822 - Jorge Loring y Oyarzábal, politician (d. 1900)
1847 - María Victoria del Pozzo, Queen consort of Spain (1870-73) born in Paris (d. 1876)
1863 - Conde de Romanones, president (1912, 1915-1917 y 1918-1919) (d. 1950)
1869 - Manuel Medina Olmos, priest (d. 1936)

1872 - Ramon Pichot Gironès, was a Catalan and Spanish artist. He painted in an impressionist style. He was a good friend of Pablo Picasso and an early mentor to young Salvador Dalí.

Dalí met Pichot in Cadaqués, when was only 10 years old. Once in a while, Dalí and his family would go on a trip with Pichot and his family. He married Germaine Pichot, a well-known artist's model, in 1906.

Together they had a restaurant near the Bateau Lavoir, called La maison rose. (d. 1925)

1880 - Ramón Pérez de Ayala y Fernández del Portal was a writer. He was the Spanish ambassador to England in London (1931-1936) and voluntarily exiled himself to Argentina via France because of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. (d. 1962)
1884 - Diego San José de la Torre, writer and historian (d. 1962)
1903 - Santiago Aznar, politician (d. 1979)
1904 - Alfonso Guixot Guixot, Catalán businessman (d. 1956)
1921 - Elías Amézaga, writer (d. 2008)

Carmen Balcells - By Elisa Cabot - https://www.flickr.com/photos/76540627@N03/7822342062, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39113854

1930 - Carmen Balcells Segala was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature. Authors who have published with Balcells have dedicated novels to her and included her as characters in her work; she is praised as "one of the most powerful and influential women in Spanish letters." She died at the age of 85 in Barcelona on 20 September 2015. At her death Mario Vargas Llosa said: "Carmen queridísima, hasta pronto" ("Carmen dearest, see you soon").(d. 2015)
1932 - José Antonio Aguiriano, politician (d. 1996)
1935 - Joaquim Jordà, actor & director.
1936 - José Luis Uribarri, journalist (d. 2012)
1940 - Mercedes Alonso, actress
1943 - Lorenzo Sanz, businessman and former president of Real Madrid 1995-2000; owner Málaga CF) born in Madrid (d. 2020)
1944 - Ricard Miralles, musician.
1952 - Àngel Ros, Catalan politician.
1953 - Alberto Saiz, politician.
1957 - Juan José Guerenabarrena, journalist.
1958 - José Manuel González-Páramo, economist.
1960 - Tomás Reñones, footballer.
1962 - Gabriel Sopeña, poet and composer.

1966 - Rafael Serrano Quevedo, As the Chief Executive of Prime Investors Capital, Serrano purchased the lease to Admiralty Arch, a landmark London building, and led the funding and development of the Bulgari Hotel and Residences in Knightsbridge.
1972 - Aitor Huegún, footballer.

1972 - Silvia Ramon-Cortes tennis star (1994 Futures- Vigo) born in Barcelona
1980 - Nuria Cabanillas, gymnast.
1982 - Anna Simon Marí, TV presenter and journalist.
1984 - Gaizka Tokero, footballer.
1986 - José Manuel Casado, footballer

2005 - Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, Andorran tennis player

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Deaths
1284 - Jaime de Castilla (Lord of the Camaros) (b 1267)
1801 - María Gertrudis Hore, poet (b. 1742)
1844 - Mateo Miguel Ayllón Alonso, politician (b. 1793)
1881 - José Valenzuela y Márquez, politician and doctor (b. 1820)
1912 - Cándida María de Jesús, Saint (b. 1845)
1936 - Florentino Asensio Barroso, bishop (b. 1877)
1967 - Pedro Garfias, poet (b. 1901)
1971 - Manuel Lozano Garrido, writer (b. 1920)
1976 - Mariano Ozores Francés, actor (b. 1890)
1979 - Chus Alonso, footballer (b. 1917)
2010 - Fernando Fernandez, cartoonist, illustrator and painter (b. 1940)
2011 - Bartomeu Fiol, poet (b. 1933)