MILITARY PERSONNEL

René Schneider

1913 - 1970

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René Schneider Chereau (; December 31, 1913 – October 25, 1970) was a Chilean military official who served as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Schneider has received more than 244,428 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). René Schneider is the 987th most popular military personnel (up from 1,099th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Chile (up from 47th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chilean Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, René Schneider ranks 987 out of 2,058Before him are Hōjō Ujiyasu, Ding Ruchang, Fritz Witt, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Yakov Pavlov, and Fukushima Masanori. After him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Constantin Prezan, Tōdō Takatora, Matome Ugaki, Matteo I Visconti, and François Joseph Paul de Grasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, René Schneider ranks 123Before him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Wols, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Tikhon Khrennikov, Pak Song-chol, and William P. Rogers. After him are Heinrich Bär, Mouloud Feraoun, William Tolbert, Albert Cossery, Anthony Quayle, and Alexander Kotov. Among people deceased in 1970, René Schneider ranks 99Before him are Franz Schlegelberger, Pavel Belyayev, Abraham Zapruder, Jacques Pills, Amadeo Bordiga, and Agustín Lara. After him are Café Filho, John Barbirolli, Folco Lulli, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Leah Goldberg, and Friedrich Pollock.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, René Schneider ranks 40 out of 321Before him are Nicanor Parra (1914), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Arturo Alessandri (1868), and Lucía Hiriart (1923). After him are Gabriel González Videla (1898), Laura Vicuña (1891), José Manuel Balmaceda (1840), Patricio Guzmán (1941), Marcelo Salas (1974), and Tom Araya (1961).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Chile

Among military personnels born in Chile, René Schneider ranks 2Before him are Lautaro (1534).