Luis García Meza

Luis García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian general who served as the de facto 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78).

8 August 1929

Born on the same birth date (8 August 1929): Larisa Bogoraz • Ronnie Biggs

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield • Chris Foreman • Craig Breslow • Dino De Laurentiis • Don Burrows • Hipólito Ruiz López • Huey Morgan • Louis Saha • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Paul Dirac • Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist • Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine • Tyrone Peachey • Willie Tonga

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Buck Owens • David Waddington • Dick Tiger • Francis Gary Powers • Helmut Rahn • Hugues Aufray • Leila Abashidze • Pat Harrington Jr. • Ronnie Biggs • Roxie Roker • Ulrich Wegener • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vladimir Beekman