Miguel de Cervantes - age: 68

Miguel de Cervantes

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ABOUT

Spanish author of the masterpiece novel, Don Quixote. The early 17th-century work tells the story of a man driven so mad by reading chivalrous tales that he comes to believe he is a knight.The hero of his most famous work spends his time riding about the countryside accompanied by his ward, Sancho Panza, and looking for knightly tasks.Vanessa Williams appeared in a film based on Cervantes' famous work, Don Quixote.

BEFORE FAME

He worked in his youth as an assistant to a Roman priest, and he later enlisted in the Spanish Navy. As a young man, he devised a plan to run away and marry his lover; however, her father discovered their plan and forbade her to see Cervantes ever again.

PERSONAL LIFE

His father, Rodrigo, was both a barber and a surgeon, and his mother was sold into matrimony by her impoverished father in 1543. He grew up with six siblings. In 1584, he married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios and he had a daughter named Isabel de Saavedra.

FUN FACTS

Novelist Miguel De Cervantes were born on Monday, birthstone is Sapphire, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of , it is 268 days until Miguel De Cervantes next birthday.

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