Juan Larrea (politician)

Juan Larrea was a Spanish businessman and politician in Buenos Aires during the early nineteenth century. He headed a military unit during the second British invasion of the Río de la Plata, and worked at the Buenos Aires Cabildo. He took part in the ill-fated Mutiny of Álzaga. Larrea and Domingo Matheu were the only two Spanish-born members of the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina.

24 June 1782

Born on the same birth day (24 June): Carolyn S. Shoemaker • Donald Gordon (South African businessman) • Erik Poppe • Floris V, Count of Holland • Graham McKenzie • Ian Ross (newsreader) • Johanna Welin • Julia Kristeva • Mindy Kaling • Robert Downey Sr. • Thomas Blanchard (inventor) • William B. Saxbe