Salvador Dalí was born on 11 May , at am, [10] on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol, 20 in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. [11] Dalí's older brother, who had also been named Salvador (born 12 October ), had died of gastroenteritis nine months earlier, on 1 August