When Juanito Donato López was born in 1915, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, his father, Braulio Donato Duque, was 36 and his mother, Marcela Marcelina López Carrasquillo, was 37. He lived in Mariana, Humacao, Puerto Rico for about 10 years. He died on 19 December 1957, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, at the age of 42, and was buried in Cementerio Municipal de Humacao, Mariana, Humacao, Puerto Rico.
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Jones Act grants U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
Partial self-government granted. The Congress of United States approved a law to change back the name of the island Porto Rico, to its original name, Puerto Rico.
Women given full suffrage.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Antonio, Salvatore, Mario, Angelo, Domenic, Alfredo, Jose, Alberto, Armando, Cosmo, Franco, Gaetano, Gino, Rafael, Renato, Rico, Rocco, Rosario, Santo.
Spanish, Portugal, and Italian: from the personal name Donato (from Latin Donatus, past participle of donare, frequentative of dare ‘to give’). It was the name of a 4th-century Italian bishop martyred in c. 350 under Julian the Apostate, as well as various other early Christian saints, and a 4th-century grammarian and commentator on Virgil, widely respected in the Middle Ages as a figure of great learning. See also Donat .
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