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Her actual birth date is July 6 1907, 3 years before the start of the Mexican revolution. Which happened in 1910 led by Emiliano Zapata and Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Kahlo would later claim that this life-changing event was her actual date of birth. Her parents named her Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon. She was born in the Blue House built by her father the same house in which she would also die in Coyoacan Mexico a suburb of Mexico City. Her father Wilhelm Kahlo who was born in Baden-Baden, Germany a Hungarian Jew whose parents were prosecuted under the Hungarian empire, so they fled to Europe in order to avoid prosecution. In 1891 at the age of 18 he would move to Mexico where he did not speak the language and only possessions were the clothes on his back. Yet, not to long after he was confidant enough to change his name to Guillermo. In 1894 he would marry a Mexican woman who would die while giving birth to their second child. With the death of their mother he was forced to......

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