POLITICIAN

Emilio Mola

1887 - 1937

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Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War. After the death of Jose Sanjurjo on 20 July 1936, Mola commanded the Nationalists in the north of Spain, while Franco operated in the south. Attempting to take Madrid with his four columns, Mola praised local Nationalist sympathizers within the city as a "fifth column", possibly the first use of that phrase. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emilio Mola has received more than 485,477 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Emilio Mola is the 3,053rd most popular politician (up from 3,325th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 16th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Cuban Politician.

Emilio Mola was a general in the Spanish Army during the Spanish Civil War. He is most famous for his military campaign in the north of Spain, which included the bombing of Guernica.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emilio Mola ranks 3,053 out of 19,576. Before him are Deioces, Astyanax, Pujie, Alfonso I of Asturias, Eduard Limonov, and Muhammad I of Córdoba. After him are Émile Lahoud, Ali of Hejaz, Arnold Rüütel, Chlothar III, Chindasuinth, and Issey Miyake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Emilio Mola ranks 39. Before him are Lothar Rendulic, August Macke, Erich Mendelsohn, Kurt Schwitters, John Reed, and James Paul Moody. After him are Alexander Archipenko, René Cassin, Harald Bohr, Julian Huxley, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1937, Emilio Mola ranks 29. Before him are Jean Harlow, Rudolf Otto, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Karol Szymanowski, Ramsay MacDonald, and Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. After him are Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, Keke Geladze, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Albert Roussel.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Emilio Mola ranks 13 out of 300. Before him are Paul Lafargue (1842), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Alberto Korda (1928), Andy García (1956), Gloria Estefan (1957), and Compay Segundo (1907). After him are Celia Cruz (1925), Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), Sergio Oliva (1941), and Javier Sotomayor (1967).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Emilio Mola ranks 4. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926), Raúl Castro (1931), and Fulgencio Batista (1901). After him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), Sergio Oliva (1941), Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Gerardo Machado (1871), Juanita Castro (1933), and Aleida March (1936).

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