Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

Spanish bullfighter

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1891

Place of Birth: Seville, Andalusia, Spain

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1934

Profession: writer, bullfighter, matador

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (6 June 1891, Seville – 13 August 1934, Madrid) was a famous Spanish bullfighter.
(other name for bullfighter is matador).He was also a writer.
He enjoyed enormous popularity — he was attractive to women, admired by men, and a sympathetic personality to artists, especially those of the Generación del 27. When he died after a goring (cornada) in the Plaza of Manzanares, he was memorialized by Miguel Hernández, Rafael Alberti and other famous poets, but probably the best of these works is Federico García Lorca's Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Weeping for the Death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), for many the best Spanish elegy since the Coplas por la muerte de su padre ("Verses for the death of his father") by Jorge Manrique.