Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Dom nech, 1st Marquis of Dal de P bol, known professionally as Salvador Dal , was born on 11th May 1904, at 8:45 am GMT, on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol, 20, in the town of Figueres, in the Empord region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dal was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.