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Vasco Gonçalves

1921 - 2005

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General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvaʃku ɣõˈsalvɨʃ]; Lisbon 3 May 1921 – 11 June 2005) was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasco Gonçalves has received more than 79,331 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vasco Gonçalves is the 10,269th most popular politician (down from 8,781st in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 198th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Portuguese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vasco Gonçalves ranks 10,269 out of 19,576Before him are Andrei Kirilenko, Yohannes IV, Władysław Czartoryski, Lahiri Mahasaya, Momir Bulatović, and Jean Ping. After him are José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Nie Rongzhen, Inoue Kaoru, José Giral, Vsevolod Merkulov, and Hermann Esser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Vasco Gonçalves ranks 177Before him are Wadih El Safi, Reuven Feuerstein, Tadeusz Różewicz, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Guy Laroche, and Sixto Durán Ballén. After him are Erich Fried, Henri Colpi, Hossein Wahid Khorasani, Branko Mamula, Sena Jurinac, and Grigory Chukhray. Among people deceased in 2005, Vasco Gonçalves ranks 119Before him are John Mills, Teresa Wright, István Nyers, Svatopluk Pluskal, Sangoulé Lamizana, and Tonino Delli Colli. After him are James Doohan, Andre Norton, Kevin Hagen, Zoran Mušič, Eddie Albert, and Vincent Gigante.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Vasco Gonçalves ranks 236 out of 633Before him are Maria Severa Onofriana (1820), Duarte, Duke of Guimarães (1515), Carlos Seixas (1704), Carlos Tavares (1958), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), and José Costa (1953). After him are Miguel Torga (1907), André Villas-Boas (1977), Jaime, Duke of Braganza (1483), António Simões (1943), José Torres (1938), and António de Andrade (1580).

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