José de Diego

José de Diego y Martínez was a Puerto Rican statesman, journalist, poet, lawyer, and advocate for Puerto Rico's political autonomy in union with Spain and later of Puerto Rican independence from the United States who was referred to by his peers as "The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement".

16 April 1866

Born on the same birth day (16 April): Ananda Dassanayake • August Eigruber • John Amabile (American football) • John Bowe (racing driver) • Johnnie Lewis • Leó Weiner • Patrik Järbyn • Pierre Fabre (businessman) • Ralph Slatyer • Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell • Teddy Cobeña • Vicar (cartoonist)

Born in the same month (April 1866): Anne Sullivan • Bernard O'Dowd • Butch Cassidy • Ernest Starling • Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau • Ferruccio Busoni • Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel • Maurice Raoul-Duval • William Blomfield • Ève Lavallière