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Rosalia Lombardo

1918 - 1920

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Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. Sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty", hers was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosalia Lombardo is the 24th most popular celebrity (down from 23rd in 2019), the 913th most popular biography from Italy (down from 890th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Celebrity.

Rosalia Lombardo was most famous for being the youngest person to be cryogenically preserved.

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Among celebrities, Rosalia Lombardo ranks 24 out of 265. Before her are Joseph Merrick, Tollund Man, Roy Sullivan, Empress Michiko, Monica Lewinsky, and Anna Anderson. After her are Keke Geladze, Dodi Fayed, Marie Duplessis, Rodney King, Besarion Jughashvili, and Jacques Mayol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Rosalia Lombardo ranks 36. Before her are Paul D. Boyer, Gunnar Sønsteby, Derek Barton, Frederick Reines, Muriel Spark, and Chaim Herzog. After her are Arthur Kornberg, Choi Hong Hi, Franco Modigliani, Julian Schwinger, Mike Wallace, and João Goulart. Among people deceased in 1920, Rosalia Lombardo ranks 14. Before her are Max Bruch, Robert Peary, Alexander Kolchak, Anders Zorn, Princess Margaret of Connaught, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. After her are Svetozar Boroević, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Inessa Armand, Essad Pasha Toptani, and John Reed.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Rosalia Lombardo ranks 913 out of 5,161. Before her are Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Pietro Pomponazzi (1462), Roberto Cavalli (1940), François Gérard (1770), Emilio Salgari (1862), and Angelo Scola (1941). After her are Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Lorenzo di Credi (1459), Italo Gariboldi (1879), Sandro Pertini (1896), Carla Bruni (1967), and Giuseppe Guarneri (1698).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Italy

Among celebrities born in Italy, Rosalia Lombardo ranks 3. Before her are Ötzi (-3345), and Simonetta Vespucci (1453). After her are Cecilia Gallerani (1473), Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837), and Milena Miconi (1971).

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