Italian comedian (born 1898)

Totò

Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio, best known by his stage name Totò, or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata, was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He is commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. While best known for his funny and sometimes cynical comic characters in theatre and then many successful comedy films made from the 1940s to the 1960s, he also worked with many iconic Italian film directors in dramatic roles.

Born

1898

February 15

Died

1967

Era

1890s

Country

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About

Totò, in brief

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Key dates

1898 Born
1967 Died

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438 Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus.
590 Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.

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The world in 1967

When Totò departed

april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1898

Benjamin Fondane 1898– Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1944) Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956 German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898) C. S. Lewis 1898–1963 British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898) Edgar Parin d'Aulaire 1898– German-American author and illustrator (died 1986) Firpo Marberry 1898–1976 American baseball player and umpire (born 1898) Fredric Warburg 1898–1981 English author and publisher (born 1898) Fritz Zwicky 1898– Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (died 1974) George Gershwin 1898–1937 American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898) Gracie Fields 1898–1979 English actress and singer (died 1979)

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