Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power by military officers in the 1948 Venezuelan coup.

2 August 1884

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Aaron Krickstein • Adolf Friedrich von Schack • Andy Fairweather Low • Butch Vig • Constantine I of Greece • Giampaolo Pazzini • Jacky Rosen • John W. Snow • Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque • Mohammad Zahid (cricketer) • Philo Wallace • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria • Sammy McIlroy • Viktor Zhirmunsky

Born in the same month (August 1884): Billie Burke • Béla Balázs • Denis G. Lillie • Earl Derr Biggers • George Sarton • Harry Dean (cricketer) • Henri Cornet • Hermann Wlach • Hugo Gernsback • Nikolai Triik • Ogden L. Mills • Panait Istrati • Peter Fraser • Rudolf Bultmann • Sara Teasdale • Theodor Svedberg • Vincent Auriol • Will Cuppy