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Leopoldo Galtieri

1926 - 2003

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Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (Spanish pronunciation: [leoˈpolðo foɾtuˈnato ɣalˈtjeɾi kasˈteli]; 15 July 1926 – 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general who served as President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri exercised his control over Argentina as a military ruler during the National Reorganization Process as leader of the Third Junta with Jorge Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo. Galtieri was chief combat engineer of the Argentine Army and a supporter of the 1976 military coup d'état which helped him become commander-in-chief of the army in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopoldo Galtieri has received more than 1,241,211 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Leopoldo Galtieri is the 1,820th most popular politician (up from 2,068th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Argentina and the 7th most popular Argentinean Politician.

Leopoldo Galtieri was a military dictator of Argentina in the 1980s. He is most famous for leading the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (known as Las Malvinas in Argentina) and the 1983 invasion of the British-held islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 1,820 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Kavad I, Adnan Menderes, Kilij Arslan I, Gyges of Lydia, and Phorcys. After him are Muhammad of Ghor, Ka, Jovanka Broz, Henry of Germany, Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, and Balian of Ibelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 29. Before him are Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Paul Bocuse, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Donald A. Glaser, and Ivan Illich. After him are George Habash, John Coltrane, Beji Caid Essebsi, Allen Ginsberg, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Paul Berg. Among people deceased in 2003, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 19. Before him are Ilya Prigogine, Nina Simone, Soong Mei-ling, Edward Said, Alan Bates, and Elia Kazan. After him are Robert Kardashian, Gianni Agnelli, Zoran Đinđić, Otto Günsche, Maurice Blanchot, and Luciano Berio.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 20 out of 1,154. Before him are Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Daniel Barenboim (1942), José de San Martín (1778), Omar Sívori (1935), Mario Kempes (1954), and Carlos Menem (1930). After him are Héctor Cúper (1955), Gabriel Batistuta (1969), Diego Simeone (1970), Guillermo Stábile (1905), Néstor Kirchner (1950), and Daniel Passarella (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 7. Before him are Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), and Carlos Menem (1930). After him are Néstor Kirchner (1950), Alberto Fernández (1959), Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Richard Walther Darré (1895), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), and Mauricio Macri (1959).

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