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MILITARY PERSONNEL

José Sanjurjo

1872 - 1936

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José Sanjurjo y Sacanell (Spanish: [saŋˈxuɾxo]; 28 March 1872 – 20 July 1936) was a Spanish general who was one of the military leaders who plotted the July 1936 coup d'état that started the Spanish Civil War. He was endowed the nobiliary title of "Marquis of the Rif" in 1927. A monarchist opponent of the Second Spanish Republic proclaimed in 1931, he led a coup d'état known as la Sanjurjada in August 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Sanjurjo has received more than 472,292 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). José Sanjurjo is the 464th most popular military personnel (down from 435th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Spain (down from 334th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Military Personnel.

José Sanjurjo was a general in the Spanish army who led the coup that overthrew the government of the Second Spanish Republic.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, José Sanjurjo ranks 464 out of 1,468. Before him are Gustav Wagner, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Christian Wirth, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, James Paul Moody, and Roza Shanina. After him are Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Günther Korten, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Franz Böhme, and Armando Diaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, José Sanjurjo ranks 33. Before him are Wilhelm Miklas, Norman Angell, Georgy Chicherin, Mathilde Kschessinska, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, and Princess Clémentine of Belgium. After him are Henry Tingle Wilde, Julius Fučík, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Alfvén, Mikhail Tsvet, and Édouard Herriot. Among people deceased in 1936, José Sanjurjo ranks 47. Before him are Georgy Chicherin, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Robert Michels, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Heinrich Rickert, and Wilhelm Gustloff. After him are Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Bertha Pappenheim, Duan Qirui, Marcel Grossmann, Max Schreck, and Kikunae Ikeda.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José Sanjurjo ranks 356 out of 2,932. Before him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Lola Flores (1923), Manolo Blahnik (1942), Alfonso V of León (994), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492). After him are Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (1832), Joan Fuster (1922), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Francisco Largo Caballero (1869), Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans (1848), and Francisco Ferrer (1859).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Spain

Among military personnels born in Spain, José Sanjurjo ranks 7. Before him are Roland (736), Pedro de Valdivia (1497), Pedro de Alvarado (1485), Juan Pujol García (1912), Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453), and John of Austria the Younger (1629). After him are Antonio Tejero (1932), Inés Suárez (1507), Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550), Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma (1553), and Gaius Laelius (-300).

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