* 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet ( d. 1595 )

* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

* The 16th-century Spanish poet Cristóbal de Castillejo plagiarized Catullus in his well-known work " Dame amor, besos sin cuento ".

* 1902 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet ( d. 1999 )

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

* 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet ( d. 1669 )

* 1542 – John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet ( d. 1591 )

* 1561 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet ( d. 1627 )

* 1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet ( d. 1939 )

* 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish composer, poet, and playwright ( d. 1530 )

* 1931 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist

* Yehuda Halevi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet

* Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveler

* 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat ( b. 1597 )

* 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet ( d. 1641 )

* 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician ( d. 1645 )

* 1750 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet ( d. 1791 )

* 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher ( d. 1901 )

In 1561 Luis de León, a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian friar, translated the Song of Songs into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

* February 22 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet ( b. 1875 )

** Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish poet ( born 1817 )

* Solomon ibn Gabirol, Jewish philosopher and poet from Spanish Al-Andalus

* September 21 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet ( d. 1963 )

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

* 1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright ( d. 2007 )

* 1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

* 1778 – Fernando Sor ( baptized ), Spanish composer ( d. 1839 )

* 1985 – Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer

* 1966-In response, the Spanish Foreign Office Minister Fernando Castiella, published and presented to the Spanish Courts the " Spanish Red Book " ( named so because of its cover ; its reference is " Negociaciones sobre Gibraltar.

An authoritative source in Spanish is Fernando Guerrero Briceno, El Arpa en Venezuela ( The Harp in Venezuela ).

** Colonial heads of Equatorial Guinea ( Fernando Poo / Spanish Guinea )

* 1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish director

* 2004 – Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist.

Several places named San Fernando were founded across the Spanish Empire.

** Fernando Torres, Spanish football player

* June 3 – José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru ( d. 1821 )

* December 11 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general ( b. 1507 )

* July 8 – Fernando Sor, Spanish guitarist and composer ( b. 1778 )

* February 14 – Fernando Sor, Spanish Composer & Guitarist ( d. 1839 )

* August 25 – Battle of Alcântara: Spanish armies, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, defending the claim of King Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne, defeat the armies of Portuguese claimant António, Prior of Crato.

* June 3 – Fernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva, duque de Linares, Spanish nobleman and military officer

* October 29 – Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general ( d. 1582 )

Variants of the name include Fernán, Fernando, Hernando, and Hernán in Spanish, Ferran in Catalan, and Fernando and Fernão in Portuguese.

* Fernando Alonso ( born 1981 ), Spanish racing driver