Mauro Rimorin Avena was born on 1 August 1916, in Aringay, Pangasinan, Philippines. He died on 3 June 2002, at the age of 85.
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Filipino people approve constitution creating the Philippine Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon y Molina as the first president. The Philippines is promised full independence within 10 years.
Japan attacks the Philippines by air and invades two weeks later.
U.S. forces retake the islands.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Alberto, Ana, Arturo, Blanca, Domingo, Felipe, Francisco, Gerado, Gerardo, Gilberto, Guillermo. Italian Angelo, Rocco, Antonio, Carmine, Giuseppe, Leonardo, Vito, Carmela, Ettore, Salvatore, Vincenzo.
Italian and Spanish: metonymic occupational name for a grain grower or merchant, from avena ‘oats, oatmeal’ (from Latin avena).
Italian: habitational name from a place in Calabria called Avena.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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