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Events on Sunday 19 April 1998 1
1914 – 1998Octavio Paz (1914-1998)Died 19 April 1998, aged 84Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and essayist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, died in Mexico City on 19 April 1998. His work, including The Labyrinth of Solitude, remains foundational to modern Latin American literature.