Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise

The list Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise includes Plácido Domingo, Carmen Maura, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Arthur Rubinstein and Concha Velasco. The list consists of 83 members and 1 sublist.

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Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise

Spanish civil order

Commanders of the Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
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Plácido Domingo

Spanish tenor and conductor

Overview: José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, re ...

Date of birth: 21 January 1941

Age: 84

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

Partner: Marta Ornelas (Married)

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Plácido Domingo 2T

Male conductors (music) 1,408T

Spanish operatic tenors 18T
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Artur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist

Overview: Arthur Rubinstein KBE OSE GOSE (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish-American classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all ...

Date of birth: 28 January 1887

Date of death: 20 December 1982

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Polish

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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American male classical pianists 157T

19th-century Polish Jews 183T

20th-century Polish Jews 293T
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Carmen Maura

Spanish actor

Overview: María del Carmen García Maura (born 15 September 1945) is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film directors Pedro ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Spanish women television presenters 108T

Chicas Almodóvar 15T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners 96T
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Cayetana de Alba

Spanish noble

Overview: María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba GE (28 March 1926 – 20 November 2014) was one of the most senior aristocrats in Spain, as well as the most titled aristocrat in ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1926

Date of death: 20 November 2014

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Marquesses of Carpio 12T

2014 deaths 9,829T

Nobility from Madrid 84T
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Concha Velasco

Spanish actress, singer, dancer, and television presenter (1939–2023)

Overview: Concepción Velasco Varona (29 November 1939 – 2 December 2023), known professionally as Concha Velasco –also Conchita Velasco–, was a Spanish actress, singer and television presenter. She received numerous ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1939

Date of death: 2 December 2023

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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2023 deaths 8,380T

Spanish women television presenters 143T

Women television presenters 1,284T
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Montserrat Caballé

Spanish, Singer

Overview: María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch or Folc (12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018), known simply as Montserrat Caballé (i Folch), was a Spanish operatic soprano from Catalonia. Widely con ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1933

Date of death: 6 October 2018

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Partner: Bernabé Martí (Married)

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20th-century Spanish women opera singers 41T

20th-century Spanish opera singers 43T

20th-century women opera singers 1,378T
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Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale

British Baron

Overview: Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, CBE (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966) was the eldest child of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter, a daughter of Levi ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1896

Date of death: 9 February 1966

Age: 70 (age at death)

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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20th-century British women politicians 386T

20th-century women politicians 3,287T

Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 49T
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King Hassan II

Moroccan monarch

Overview: Hassan II (Arabic: الْحسْنُ الثاني بْن مُحَمَّدُ بْن يوسف بْن الْحسْنِ بْن الشَّرِيفِ بْن عَلِيُّ الْعَلَوِيِّ‎, MSA: (a)l-ḥasan aṯ-ṯānī, Maghrebi Arabic: el-ḥasan ett(s)âni, Berber languages: ⵍⵃⴰⵙⴰⵏ ...

Date of birth: 9 July 1929

Date of death: 23 July 1999

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Moroccan

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

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20th-century Moroccan businesspeople 12T

20th-century Arabs 165T

Moroccan people of Arab descent 38T
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Renzo Piano

Italian architect

Overview: Renzo Piano (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum ...

Date of birth: 14 September 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Architect

Gender: Male

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Compasso d'Oro Award recipients 119T

Recipients of the AIA Gold Medal 80T

Engineers from Genoa 10T
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Alexander Fleming

Scottish scientist

Overview: Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first broadly ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1881

Date of death: 11 March 1955

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Male

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London Scottish soldiers 41T

Physicians of St Mary's Hospital, London 39T

Physicians of Guy's Hospital 52T
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María Dolores Pradera

Spanish singer

Overview: María Dolores Fernández Pradera (29 August 1924 – 28 May 2018) was a Spanish melodic singer and actress, and one of the most famous voices in Spain and Latin America.

Date of birth: 29 August 1926

Date of death: 28 May 2018

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,657T

Women in Latin music 417T

2018 deaths 7,472T
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Lina Morgan

Spanish actriz

Overview: María de los Ángeles López Segovia (20 March 1936 – 19 August 2015), better known as Lina Morgan, was a Spanish film, theatre and television actress and showgirl.

Date of birth: 20 March 1937

Date of death: 20 August 2015

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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2015 deaths 9,624T

Spanish women comedians 12T

Actresses from Madrid 171T
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Rebeca Grynspan

Costa Rican economist

Overview: Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (Hebrew: רבקה גרינשפן‎; born 14 December 1955) is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Ibero-American Secretary General since 2014. She is a former UN Under-Se ...

Date of birth: 14 December 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Costa Rican

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

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Women vice presidents of Costa Rica 9T

Members of the Inter-American Dialogue 135T

Costa Rican officials of the United Nations 9T
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Adolfo Suárez, 1st Duke of Suárez

Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981)

Overview: Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister since the Second Spanish ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1932

Date of death: 23 March 2014

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Deaths from dementia in Spain 16T

Neurological disease deaths in Spain 43T

Recipients of the Imperial Order of the Yoke and Arrows 18T
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Esperanza Aguirre

Spanish politician (born 1952)

Overview: Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma (born 3 January 1952) is a Spanish politician. A member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of the Senate between 1999 and 2002 (becoming the first female ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1952

Age: 73

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

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Women presidents of the autonomous communities of Spain 9T

21st-century Spanish women politicians 148T

Members of the 6th Senate of Spain 8T
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Julia Gutiérrez Caba

Spanish actress

Overview: Julia Gutiérrez Caba (born on 20 October 1934 in Madrid) is a Spanish theatre and film actress.

Date of birth: 20 October 1934

Age: 90

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Madrid 171T

21st-century Spanish actresses 292T

20th-century Spanish actresses 245T
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Teresa Berganza

Spanish, Opera singer

Overview: Teresa Berganza Vargas (16 March 1933 – 13 May 2022) was a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with roles such as Rossini's Rosina and La Cenerentola, and later Bizet's Carmen, admired ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1935

Date of death: 13 May 2022

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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2022 deaths 11,870T

20th-century Spanish women opera singers 41T

20th-century Spanish opera singers 43T
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Leonardo Legaspi

Catholic Bishop

Overview: Leonardo Zamora Legazpi, O.P. (25 November 1935 – 8 August 2014) was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (19 ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1935

Date of death: 8 August 2014

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

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21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines 34T

20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines 25T

Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas 8T
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Liz Mohn

German businesswoman and philanthropist

Overview: Elisabeth Mohn (née Beckmann, born 21 June 1941) is a German billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.

Date of birth: 21 June 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: German

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin 122T

21st-century German businesspeople 116T

20th-century German businesspeople 211T
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Archduchess Monika of Austria

German, Socialite

Date of birth: 13 September 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: German

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Recipients of the Royal Order of the Intare 15T

Austrian people of Portuguese descent 8T

Grandees of Spain 250T