Adolfo Nicolás

Adolfo Nicolás Pachón was a Spanish Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. He was the 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. Before being elected Superior General, he worked primarily in Japan; he taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and then headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. He led the Jesuits in Japan from 1993 to 1996 and, after four years of pastoral work in Tokyo, led the Jesuits in Asia from 2004 to 2008.

29 April 1936

Born on the same birth date (29 April 1936): Alejandra Pizarnik • Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild • Zubin Mehta

Born on the same birth day (29 April): April Stevens • Bob McClure • Celeste Holm • Dave Valentin • David Sullivan (actor) • Frank Auerbach • George Adams (musician) • George McCartney (footballer) • Jay Cutler • Malcolm Sargent • Mallory Swanson • Paul Adelstein • Pedro Pires • Peter Diamond • Richard Carlson (actor) • Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania

Born in the same month (April 1936): Bobby Smith (rhythm and blues singer) • David Crombie • Dragoljub Minić • Frank Serpico • Glen Campbell • Jack Pardee • Jean-Pierre Changeux • Jerzy Maksymiuk • Jill Ireland • Kennedy Simmonds • Pat Roberts • Peter Collinson (film director) • Reg Fleming • Tariq Aziz • Tony Earl • Urs Wild • Vadim Kuzmin (physicist) • Zubin Mehta