When Archimede Ferruccio Lirussi was born on 19 November 1908, in Fagagna, Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, his father, Lodovico Lirussi, was 42 and his mother, Stella Munini, was 36. He died on 4 July 1981, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 72.