All Entries Tagged With: "Pancho Villa"
Álvaro Obregón
Date of Birth: 17 February 1880 Birth Name: Álvaro Obregón Salido Mini Biography: Alvaro Obregon was born near Alamos, in the Mexican state of Sonora, to a family of poor farmers. In 1911 he was elected mayor of Huatabampo, as a supporter of reformist President Francisco I. Madero, who was engaged in putting down a [...]
Porfirio Díaz
Date of Birth: 15 September 1830 Birth Name: José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori Mini Biography: Porfirio Diaz, known for his long and autocratic rule of Mexico and his disdain for the poorer classes, was actually born into a lower-middle-class Spanish/Mixtec Indian family in Oaxaca. His father was a blacksmith and an innkeeper and [...]
Brian Donlevy
Date of Birth: 9 February 1901 Birth Name: Waldo Brian Donlevy Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Mini Biography: It seems that Brian Donlevy started out life as colorfully as any character he ever played on the stage or screen. He lied about his age (he was actually 14) in 1916 so he could join the [...]
Mimi Aguglia
Date of Birth: 21 December 1884 Mini Biography: Mimi Aguglia was born in Palermo, Sicily, on a theater stage in 1884, when her mother, Giuseppina Aguglia, a famous Sicilian actress, was playing Desdimona in William Shakespeare’s “Othello”. The newborn was named Giroloma in honor of her grandfather, but everyone called her by her nick name: [...]