Rubén Bonifaz Nuño

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (died 2013)

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Born: November 12, 1923
Died: January 31, 2013
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birth year: 1923

About Rubén Bonifaz Nuño

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classical scholar. Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in classics in 1970. Among his publications are translations of works by Catullus, Propertius, Ovid, Lucretius and others into Spanish; his translation of Vergil's Aeneid (1972–73) was particularly well received. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language since 1963 and was admitted to the Colegio Nacional in 1972.

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The world when Rubén Bonifaz Nuño was born

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño was born in 1923. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1923

#1 song"Yes! We Have No Bananas"
Top movieThe Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
Best-selling bookBlack Oxen – Gertrude Atherton

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentFirst 24 Hours of Le Mans race
Top headlineTime magazine publishes its first issue
Technology milestoneFirst neon signs appear in the United States
Defining fadDance marathons
Notable inventionFrozen food process (Clarence Birdseye)
World population1.93 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderWarren G. Harding / Calvin Coolidge
Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
U.S. population111.9M

1923 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Rubén Bonifaz Nuño's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1923	2026
Gas	$0.22	$3.45/gal
Average home	$5,700	$435,000
Average income	$3,380	$67,500
Movie ticket	$0.15	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.02	$0.73
Population	111.9M	341 million

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