On this day Capa died.

I did a wee search just before midnight in the hope of finding a few famous folk who had died on this day. Not of course because I had hoped or wished for their demise. Just a private interest really. Seems there a few folk who meet the bill though. My mother of late was of course one. President of Eddlewood Bowling and a wartime radar operator were her main claims to fame.
Lee Godwin the US water polo player and Adam Tanner the Austrian mathematician are also amongst the throng. Then there's the Croatian writer Paula von Preradovic and of course Pope Gregory, who died in 1020.
Capa of course became known across the globe for the "Falling Soldier" a photo long thought to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front. Scholars have long debated the authenticity of this photograph. A Spanish historian later identified the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García, from Alcoi (Alicante) and on 3 February 2013 an investigative documentary broadcast by Japan's NHK, detailing painstaking research carried out by Kotaro Sawak, presented a compelling case for Gerda Taro to be acknowledged as the real photographer.