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): Apollonia Kotero • Arthur Dove • Austin Theory • Bunker Roy • Butch Vig • Cedric Ceballos • Cynthia Stevenson • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Ike Williams • Jon R. Cavaiani • Lily Gladstone • Marco Bonura • Philo Wallace • Saskia van Uylenburgh • Snoo Wilson • Tim Murtagh • Tony Godden

Born in the same month (August 1884): Earl Derr Biggers • George Sarton • Hermann Wlach • Hugo Gernsback • Panait Istrati • Peter Fraser • Rudolf Bultmann • Theodor Svedberg • Vincent Auriol • Will Cuppy