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Emilio Mola

1887 - 1937

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Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War. After the death of 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 440,515 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Emilio Mola is the 3,335th most popular politician (up from 3,597th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Cuba and the 5th 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 3,335 out of 15,577. Before him are Salome Alexandra, Chang Myon, Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Emperor Zhezong, and Berengaria of Castile. After him are Ptahhotep, John Balliol, Shigeru Yoshida, Fujiko Fujio, Lennart Johansson, and Tokugawa Iemitsu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Emilio Mola ranks 45. Before him are René Cassin, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Alexander Archipenko, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, and Boris Karloff. After him are Ernst Hanfstaengl, Harald Bohr, Violet Jessop, Frederick Fleet, Hans Oster, and Heinrich von Vietinghoff. Among people deceased in 1937, Emilio Mola ranks 31. Before him are Jean Harlow, Karol Szymanowski, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Gustaf Dalén, Albert Roussel, Wallace Carothers, Edith Wharton, and Pavel Florensky.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Emilio Mola ranks 16 out of 248. Before him are Alberto Korda (1928), Compay Segundo (1907), Gloria Estefan (1957), Ibrahim Ferrer (1927), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), and Celia Cruz (1925). After him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Alicia Alonso (1920), Omara Portuondo (1930), Javier Sotomayor (1967), and Sergio Oliva (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Emilio Mola ranks 5. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926), Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), and Juan Almeida Bosque (1927). After him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Sergio Oliva (1941), Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Aleida March (1936), Vilma Espín (1930), and Gerardo Machado (1871).

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