Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazil's provisional, constitutional, dictatorial and democratic leader, he is considered by historians as the most influential Brazilian politician of the 20th century.

19 April 1882

Born on the same birth day (19 April): Alexandre Boëly • Ara Gevorgyan • Arthur Robertson (athlete) • Bernie Worrell • Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth • Eliot Ness • Elizabeth Dilling • Jiroemon Kimura • Joseph Estrada • Julien Ries • Justin Rigali • Kim Chiu • Mswati III • Ragnar Ulstein • Rhea Silberta • Richard Hughes (British writer) • Samuel C. Morrison Jr. • Suge Knight • Trevor Francis • Walter Stewart (journalist)

Born in the same month (April 1882): Artur Schnabel • Auguste Herbin • Fred McLeod (golfer) • Frederick Francis IV • Holland Smith • Hugh Dowding • Isaac Babalola Akinyele • Jessie R. Fauset • Kurt von Schleicher • Leopold Stokowski • Moritz Schlick • Natalia Sedova • Otz Tollen • Percy Williams Bridgman