1849.   The scientist Tomás Romay y Chacón dies in Havana.

He was born in the Cuban capital on December 21, 1764.

He was the introducer of the vaccine in Cuba and is also catalogued as the precursor of the development of science in our country.  He also stood out for his contributions to the teaching of medicine. He introduced the study of anatomy on the cadaver and clinical studies in hospital wards.

He came to be described as a great humanist, scholar, physician and hygienist. When the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País was created, he was among its founding members. He worked as editor and sometimes as Director of the Papel Periódico de La Habana, a publication of that society. Together with economist Francisco de Arango y Parreño and philosopher José Agustín Caballero, he became one of the main figures of the progressive movement promoted by the great Creole bourgeoisie of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He also held several administrative positions. He was Secretary of the Provincial Council and president of the Superior Board of Medicine. In his professional work he was a professor of medical clinic and was a doctor in the Navy hospitals.

1957.  Felipe Pichardo Moya dies in Havana.

He was born in Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, today the city of Camagüey, on October 18, 1892.

He attended high school at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza in Havana between 1907 and 1912. He graduated as Doctor of Law at the University of Havana in 1916.

He practiced jurisprudence in Camagüey. He was a professor at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza and director of the Escuela Normal para Maestros.  As a journalist and writer he dedicated a considerable part of his written work to Archeology and History.

From the scientific point of view, his life was devoted to the studies referred to the prehistory of Cuba, in field and cabinet activities, especially in the territory of the province of Camagüey.

He considered that the archaeologist should not be a simple collector of pieces, but a scholar of the material found in order to achieve its adequate cataloguing in the aboriginal cultures.