Eduardo Cansino Hollywood, Margarita Carmen Cansino took her mother's maiden name as her professional surname, becoming Rita Hayworth. Eduardo Cansino Sr. died in Pompano Beach, Florida, in 1968, aged 73, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). Eduardo Cansino Eduardo Cansino Reina (March 2, 1895 – December 24, 1968) was a Spanish-born American dancer and actor, and the father of actress Rita Hayworth. Eduardo Cansino was born on March 2, 1895, in Castilleja de la Cuesta, Andalusia, Spain. His sister, Elisa, was also a dancer. He emigrated to the United States and joined the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1917 he married
Felis margarita margarita Felis margarita margarita Felis margarita margarita, sometimes called the Saharan sand cat, is a subspecies of the sand cat native to the Sahara. Victor Loche first described a sand cat zoological specimen found in the northern Algerian Sahara. He named it "Felis margarita" in recognition of Jean Auguste Margueritte, who headed the expedition into the Sahara. This is the nominate subspecies. Following Loche's description, Reginald Innes Pocock described two more sand cat specimens from North Africa in 1938: Today, these taxa are not recognized as valid but considered synonyms of "F. m. margarita", the nominate subspecies. The Saharan sand cat