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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

1819 - 1874

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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (18 April 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – 27 February 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Cespedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War (1868–1878). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes has received more than 237,222 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Carlos Manuel de Céspedes is the 7,029th most popular politician (up from 7,332nd in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 38th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Cuban Politician.

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  • 56.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ranks 7,029 out of 19,576. Before him are Kamehameha II, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, Conrad I, Duke of Bohemia, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, Shangguan Wan'er, and Fortún Garcés of Pamplona. After him are Giorgi Saakadze, Emperor An of Jin, Nikos Sampson, Vladimir Purishkevich, John Bowring, and Prince Konrad of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ranks 36. Before him are Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Elias Howe, Abner Doubleday, Wilhelm Marr, Roger Fenton, and Felice Orsini. After him are Franz Abt, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Alfred Escher, Estanislao Figueras, and Gustave de Molinari. Among people deceased in 1874, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ranks 19. Before him are Charles Gleyre, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Moritz von Jacobi, Constantin von Tischendorf, Cochise, and Hans Christian Lumbye. After him are Peter Cornelius, Howard Staunton, Ilija Garašanin, Countess of Ségur, Peter Andreas Hansen, and Otto Hesse.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ranks 36 out of 300. Before him are Vilma Espín (1930), Omara Portuondo (1930), Ramón Grau (1881), Pérez Prado (1916), Tomás Estrada Palma (1835), and Huber Matos (1918). After him are Nicolás Guillén (1902), Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942), Ana de Armas (1988), Carlos Puebla (1917), Leo Brouwer (1939), and Bebo Valdés (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ranks 16. Before him are Gerardo Machado (1871), Juanita Castro (1933), Aleida March (1936), Vilma Espín (1930), Ramón Grau (1881), and Tomás Estrada Palma (1835). After him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901), Dámaso Berenguer (1873), Arnaldo Ochoa (1930), José Ramón Machado Ventura (1930), Ramón Castro Ruz (1924), and José Giral (1879).

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