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On this day was born

Manuel Fajardo Rivero

Science, Doctor, Surgeon, Guerrilla fighter, Military

Israel Hernández

Arts, Music, Singer, Musician

Enrique Suárez

Arts, Music, Architect, Singer, Musician

José Antonio López del Valle Valdés

Science, Doctor, Professor, Researcher, Society

Sara Gómez Yera

Arts, Film, Screenwriter, Music, Journalist, Society

Patricia Ramírez González

Theater, Arts, Actress, Film, Society

Flora Fong García

Arts, Professor, Society

Felisa Jar González

Arts, Actress, Journalist, Professor, Society

On this day died

Alfonso Hernández Catá

Arts, Journalist, Essayist, Diplomat

Arturo R. de Carricarte Armas

Society, Journalist, Writer, Diplomat

Miguel Ángel Eugenio Lázaro Zacarías Izquierdo Valdés

Arts, Music, Singer, Composer, Musician

Néstor Leonelo Carbonell Figueroa

Historian, Journalist, Independence soldier, Patriot