Qorpo-Santo [SEP] place of death
Qorpo-Santo
José Joaquim de Campos Leão, also known as Qorpo-Santo (Triunfo, April 19, 1829 - Porto Alegre May 1, 1883), was a Brazilian journalist and playwright. He is known to have written the very first absurdist theatre plays, long time before the term Theatre of the Absurd was coined. His family put him under judicial interdiction in 1861, because he was "writing down everything". As a matter of fact, just in May 1866 he wrote 8 plays, as noted
- Mossoró, in the province of Rio Grande do Norte, is the first city in Brazil to abolish slavery.
Births.
- May 18 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, minister of war 1936-1945, president 1946-1951
- June 20 - Oliveira Viana, historian and jurist
- October 22 - Abílio Barreto, poet
- November 27 - Belfort Duarte, footballer
Deaths.
- April 11 - Arsênio da Silva, photographer
- May 1 - Qorpo-Santo (real name José Joaquim