Augusto Pestana (politician)

Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pestana moved in the late 1880s to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where he would become a specialist in railroad engineering and public administration, as well as one of the main leaders of the Republican Party of Rio Grande do Sul (PRR).

22 May 1868

Born on the same birth day (22 May): Andrei Marga • Bob Katter • Christian Vande Velde • Erin McNaught • Giacomo Matteotti • Giulia Grisi • Hergé • Hubert Robert • Jay Carney • Louis de Buade de Frontenac • Nedumudi Venu • Novak Djokovic • Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom • T. Boone Pickens • Ted Kaczynski

Born in the same month (May 1868): Aleksa Šantić • Charlie Taylor (mechanic) • Gaston Leroux • Horace Elgin Dodge • Magnus Hirschfeld • Nicholas II • Panagis Tsaldaris • Sumner Paine