Humberto Nilo Saavedra (born in Santiago de Chile in 1954) was the director of the University of Chile school of arts. [1] He set up a mail art exhibit at a museum in Santiago. The exhibit criticized the lack of liberty in Chile. He was dismissed a few months later.
The Battle of Santiago was a football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup, played between the hosts Chile and Italy on 2 June 1962 in Santiago. It gained its nickname from the level of violence seen in the game, in which two players were sent off, numerous punches were thrown and police intervention was required four times. The referee was Ken Aston, who later went on to invent yellow and red cards.
The tenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile, from 12 October to 3 November 1926.
The eleventh edition of the South American Championship was held in Lima, Peru from 30 October to 27 November 1927. The participating countries were Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Uruguay. Brazil, Chile and Paraguay withdrew from the tournament. This was the first South American Championship in which Peru participated. The tournament was also used as a qualifier for the 1928 Summer Olympics and both Argentina and Uruguay were subsequently invited to enter that competition.
The eighteenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile from 14 January to 28 February. This tournament was an extra edition, with no trophy handed to the winners, but considered official by CONMEBOL.
Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros was a Chilean professional footballer who played as a striker or on the left wing.
Humberto Dionisio Maschio was an Argentine-Italian football player and manager who played as a forward or midfielder.
Humberto Andrés Suazo Pontivo, nicknamed Chupete, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Primera B de Chile club San Luis de Quillota.
Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido is a Chilean former footballer, nicknamed "Rey del metro cuadrado", who played as a forward.
Humberto Maturana Romesín was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist, scientist.
Jorge Emmanuel Torres Nilo, also known as Pechu, is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón was one of the most important Chilean composers of the twentieth century. He obtained the prestigious Premio Nacional de Arte in 1945.
Luis Gabriel Valenzuela Toledo is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Santiago City.
Nilo Floody Buxton was a Chilean modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics.
Bernardo Humberto Cerezo Rojas is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Ñublense as right back or midfielder.
Nilo is both a given name and a surname. Also the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish pronunciation of the Nile river. Notable people with the name include:
The following lists events that happened during 1939 in Chile.
The following lists events that happened during 1954 in Chile.
Nelson Schwenke was part of the Chilean musical duo Schwenke & Nilo, which formed in the Chilean city of Valdivia in 1978. The other half of the duo is Marcelo Nilo. Schwenke and Nilo met at the Universidad Austral de Chile. The group's first compositions were written by Schwenke, with musical arrangements by Nilo.
Silvia Araya was a Chilean-born Canadian painter and art instructor. After founding the Chilean-Indian Institute of Culture, she joined the "Grupo Ancoa" and was a co-founder of the Museum of Art and Artisans of Linares, where she has sculptures and paintings in the permanent collection. In the 1970s, she became involved in politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1973, representing the then Province of Coquimbo. After the coup d'état, she was imprisoned in the infamous Valparaíso prison, before being exiled to Canada in 1977. Locating in Quebec City, Araya established the Académie des beaux-arts Silvia Araya and taught for twenty-five years. She was honored as a knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2008 for her cultural contributions to the province.
Humberto Giannini Íñiguez was a Chilean philosopher of Italian descent. A disciple and continuator of Enrico Castelli, he was a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences in 1999.