Arthur Bernardes
Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian politician who served as 12th president of Brazil during the First Brazilian Republic. Born in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, he was elected Governor of Minas Gerais in 1918. In 1922, he was elected President of Brazil and served until 1926. Facing a military rebellion, Bernardes ruled under a state of siege during most of the course of his term.
8 August 1875
Born on the same birth day (8 August): Carl Fredrik Pechlin • Hans Egede Budtz • Hipólito Ruiz López • Huey Morgan • Ilka Agricola • Jack Cassel • Jana Andrsová • John Holmes (actor) • Miho Shiraishi • Pierre Boulanger • Princess Beatrice • Rinku Singh (baseball) • Sudhakar Rao • Svetlana Savitskaya • Sylvia Sidney
Born in the same month (August 1875): Agnes Mowinckel • Albert Ketèlbey • Eugene Lanceray • John Buchan • Katharine McCormick • Leonardo De Lorenzo • Mstislav Dobuzhinsky • Rosa Lemberg • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • William Eccles (physicist)