Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño was a Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. He is known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for his plays.
Events from the year 1517 in literature.
Liberec Region is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after its capital Liberec. The region shares international borders with Germany and Poland. Domestically the region borders the Ústí nad Labem Region to the west, the Central Bohemian Region to the south and the Hradec Králové Region to the east.
Myosarcoma is a malignant muscle tumor. People with myosarcoma often wake up with the feeling as if they had a cramp during their sleep.
Renate Anna Blank was a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. She was born in Nuremberg and was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 2009.
Andrés de Claramonte y Corroy was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. Very few facts are known about his life. As an actor, he worked for the most important companies, such as Baltasar de Pinedo's or Alonso de Olmedo's. As a playwright, he wrote dramas with great epic style, in which he showed his talent for visual and theatrical effects.
Domingo Miras Molina was a Spanish dramatist.
Lars Jungnickel is a German former professional footballer. Early in his career, he played as a forward and later as a midfielder, most notably for Dynamo Dresden.
Conceptismo is a literary movement of the Baroque period in the Spanish literature. It began in the late 16th century and lasted through the 17th century, also the period of the Spanish Golden Age.
The rufous hornero is a medium-sized ovenbird in the family Furnariidae. It occurs in eastern South America, and is the national bird of Argentina. Also known as the red ovenbird, it is common in savannas, second-growth scrub, pastures and agricultural land and is synanthropic. Its range includes midwestern, southeastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern and central Argentina, extending as far south as northern Patagonia. The species is most closely related to the crested hornero of Paraguay and Argentina. There are four accepted subspecies.
María Asunción Balaguer Golobart was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than 100 films and television shows from 1952 to 2016. In 1983, she played El barón, by Leandro Fernández de Moratín. In 1984, she played La cena del rey Baltasar, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Stefan Kolb is a German football striker who plays for TSV Neudrossenfeld.
Jaime Martínez Tolentino is a Puerto Rican writer.
Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis was a member of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis and a Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Nikolaus was a Lieutenant in the German Imperial Navy.
Filippo Sega was a Catholic bishop from 1575 to 1596 and a cardinal from 1591 to 1596. He served as a papal diplomat in several important and sensitive posts, in Flanders, Spain, Vienna, Prague, and France.
Hugo Reichenberger was a German conductor and composer.
Bodo Hugo Hauser was a German journalist and writer.
John Arnold Bateman is a British linguist and semiotician known for his research on natural language generation and multimodality. He has worked at Kyoto University, at the USC Information Sciences Institute, at the German National Research Center for Information Technology, at Saarland University, and at the University of Stirling. As of 2023, he is Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Max Reichenberger is a retired German football defender and later manager.
