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Raúl Alfonsín

1927 - 2009

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Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (Spanish pronunciation: [raˈul alfonˈsin] ; 12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after the 7-years National Reorganization Process. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raúl Alfonsín has received more than 662,730 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Raúl Alfonsín is the 2,481st most popular politician (up from 3,779th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Argentina (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Argentinean Politician.

Raúl Alfonsín is most famous for being the first democratically elected president of Argentina after the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla and Leopoldo Galtieri.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Raúl Alfonsín ranks 2,481 out of 19,576Before him are Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Stefan Uroš V, Rusudan of Georgia, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, and Karl Carstens. After him are Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Alexander Jannaeus, Shalmaneser I, Mohammed Badie, Alfonso VII of León and Castile, and Mary of Guise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Raúl Alfonsín ranks 34Before him are Gilbert Bécaud, Maurice Béjart, Martin Lewis Perl, Juliette Gréco, John McCarthy, and Rosalynn Carter. After him are Manfred Eigen, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Emmanuelle Riva, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Angelo Sodano, and Robert Ludlum. Among people deceased in 2009, Raúl Alfonsín ranks 19Before him are David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Abdurrahman Wahid, Mercedes Sosa, Karl Malden, and Les Paul. After him are Robert McNamara, Milorad Pavić, Ted Kennedy, Vivian Maier, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Ralf Dahrendorf.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Raúl Alfonsín ranks 31 out of 1,154Before him are Néstor Kirchner (1950), Daniel Passarella (1953), Helenio Herrera (1910), Alberto Fernández (1959), Mercedes Sosa (1935), and Marcelo Bielsa (1955). After him are César Luis Menotti (1938), Richard Walther Darré (1895), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Mauricio Macri (1959), Carlos Reutemann (1942), and Ernesto Sabato (1911).

Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Raúl Alfonsín ranks 10Before him are Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Carlos Menem (1930), Leopoldo Galtieri (1926), Néstor Kirchner (1950), and Alberto Fernández (1959). After him are Richard Walther Darré (1895), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Mauricio Macri (1959), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), Fernando de la Rúa (1937), and Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793).