Olivencia died on 1 January 2018 at age 88 in Seville from respiratory failure after a suffering a fall in December 2017. Olivencia had four children, one of whom predeceased him in 2014. Honors Great Crosses of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, of the Military Merit, of St. Raymond of Peñafort and of Isabella the Catholic Golden Cross of Merit of Austria Creu de Sant Jordi Award of Catalonia Favorite Son of Ronda Adoptive Son of Seville Gold Medal of the City of Ceuta References External links Manuel Olivencia Ruiz: Executive Profile & Biography at Bloomberg.com 1929 births 2018 deaths Academic staff of the University of Seville University of Bologna alumni Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid People from Ronda 20th-century Spanish lawyers