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Luis Carrero Blanco

1904 - 1973

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Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis kaˈreɾo ˈβlaŋko]; 4 March 1904 – 20 December 1973) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Spain's Premier. Upon graduating from the naval academy Carrero Blanco participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Rebel faction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Carrero Blanco has received more than 812,987 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Luis Carrero Blanco is the 29th most popular extremist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Spain (up from 195th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Extremist.

Luis Carrero Blanco was the Prime Minister of Spain from 1973 to 1974. He was assassinated in 1973 by a bomb planted by the Basque separatist group ETA.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Luis Carrero Blanco ranks 29 out of 209Before him are John Wayne Gacy, Jim Jones, Carlos the Jackal, Amon Göth, Cleon, and Machine Gun Kelly. After him are Mehmet Ali Ağca, Frederick Trump, Otto Ohlendorf, H. H. Holmes, Andreas Baader, and Tommaso Buscetta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Luis Carrero Blanco ranks 27Before him are René Lacoste, Glenn Miller, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, and John Hicks. After him are Gregory Bateson, Harry Martinson, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, Hans Morgenthau, and Ernst Mayr. Among people deceased in 1973, Luis Carrero Blanco ranks 35Before him are Ragnar Frisch, Jacques Maritain, Selman Waksman, Hans Albert Einstein, Karl Ziegler, and Charles Greeley Abbot. After him are Jean-Pierre Melville, Walter Rudolf Hess, A. S. Neill, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Amílcar Cabral, and Lex Barker.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Luis Carrero Blanco ranks 186 out of 2,932Before him are Fernando Sor (1778), Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), Frederick III of Sicily (1272), Tirso de Molina (1579), Pedro de Alvarado (1485), and Adolfo Suárez (1932). After him are Camilo José Cela (1916), Al-Hakam II (915), Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895), Andrés Segovia (1893), Buenaventura Durruti (1896), and Penélope Cruz (1974).

Among EXTREMISTS In Spain

Among extremists born in Spain, Luis Carrero Blanco ranks 2Before him are Ramón Mercader (1913). After him are Émile Henry (1872).