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): Andrew Gold • Eddie Fuller • Herbert M. Allison • Istifan al-Duwayhi • James Howe • John Sloan • Kerry Rhodes • Neal Morse • Red Ames • Theodor Zwinger • Tim Murtagh • Valery Bykovsky
Born in the same month (August 1884): Béla Balázs • Denis G. Lillie • George Sarton • Harry Dean (cricketer) • Hermann Wlach • Hugo Gernsback • Nikolai Triik • Ogden L. Mills • Panait Istrati