1861
José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)
José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)
José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath (1861–1896)
- Born
- 1861
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a national hero of the Philippines, although no official proclamation formally declares him as such. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement in the 1880s, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.