Efraín Ríos Montt

José Efraín Ríos Montt was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as de facto President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. His brief tenure as chief executive was one of the bloodiest periods in the long-running Guatemalan Civil War. Ríos Montt's counter-insurgency strategies significantly weakened the Marxist guerrillas organized under the umbrella of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) while also leading to accusations of war crimes and genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan Army under his leadership.

16 June 1926

Born on the same birth day (16 June): Arthur Meighen • Constantin von Ettingshausen • Darrell Griffith • Derek Sanderson • Ernst Otto Schlick • Henrietta of England • Jean d'Ormesson • Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples • Joyce Carol Oates • Justin Jefferson • Kerry Wood • Max Delbrück (chemist) • Otto Jahn • The Sandman (wrestler) • William Arnon Henry

Born in the same month (June 1926): Ain Kaalep • Andy Griffith • Bobby Morgan (baseball) • Calvin "Fuzz" Jones • Carlisle Floyd • Fred Cone (American football) • George Englund • George Robb (footballer) • Ingeborg Bachmann • Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah • Kenny Baker (fiddler) • Lionel Jeffries • Marilyn Monroe • Mel Brooks • Milo O'Shea • Paul Soros • Rachid Solh • Richard Schweiker • Robert Earl Hughes • Robert Ledley • Roger Stuart Bacon