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Artur da Costa e Silva

1899 - 1969

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Artur da Costa e Silva (Portuguese: [aʁˈtuʁ dɐ ˈkɔstɐ i ˈsiwvɐ]; 3 October 1899 – 17 December 1969) was a Brazilian Army Marshal and the second president of the Brazilian military government that came to power after the 1964 coup d'état. He reached the rank of Marshal of the Brazilian Army, and held the post of Minister of War in the military government of president Castelo Branco. During his term in office Institutional Act 5 was promulgated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Artur da Costa e Silva has received more than 241,489 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Artur da Costa e Silva is the 6,202nd most popular politician (up from 6,564th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 125th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Artur da Costa e Silva ranks 6,202 out of 19,576Before him are Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Archduke Felix of Austria, Emperor Takakura, Khamudi, and René Viviani. After him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Gaius Appuleius Diocles, Morihiro Hosokawa, Joschka Fischer, William V, Duke of Aquitaine, and Sidonie of Poděbrady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Artur da Costa e Silva ranks 74Before him are Yaakov Dori, Erwin Bowien, Adam Rainer, Emma Morano, Marcel Achard, and Raoul Salan. After him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Hayato Ikeda, Irving Thalberg, Gustav Ucicky, and Nikolay Voronov. Among people deceased in 1969, Artur da Costa e Silva ranks 56Before him are Korney Chukovsky, Grażyna Bacewicz, Dragiša Cvetković, Eberhard von Mackensen, Markian Popov, and Radivoj Korać. After him are Ernest Ansermet, Jiří Trnka, Joseph Kosma, Ramón Grau, Lucien Bianchi, and Leo McCarey.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Artur da Costa e Silva ranks 122 out of 2,236Before him are Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928), Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847), Cláudio Hummes (1934), Aldair (1965), Oscar (1954), and Mário de Andrade (1893). After him are Tiradentes (1746), Carlos Pace (1944), Everaldo (1944), Clodoaldo (1949), Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará (1875), and Gal Costa (1945).

Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Artur da Costa e Silva ranks 25Before him are José Sarney (1930), Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905), João Figueiredo (1918), Bernardino Machado (1851), Fernando Collor de Mello (1949), and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847). After him are Jânio Quadros (1917), Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1883), Floriano Peixoto (1839), Washington Luís (1869), Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (1910), and Charles, Duke of Guise (1571).