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José Echegaray y Eizaguirre: Quick Facts

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Born April 19, 1832 • Madrid • Spain
Died September 4, 1916 (aged 84) • Madrid • Spain
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1904)
Notable Works “El libro talonario”
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Juan Meléndez Valdés
Spanish poet
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Pedro López de Ayala
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Hugo Grotius
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Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
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Holy Roman emperor
Francisco Franco in military uniform and cap, looking slightly to the side in an undated black and white portrait.
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ruler of Spain
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queen of Spain
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king of Spain and Portugal
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
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