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): Adolf Friedrich von Schack • Betsy Bloomingdale • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Hélder Postiga • Ike Williams • Joe Lynn Turner • Linda Fratianne • Mahmud I • Malcolm Hilton • Margaret Lawrence (actress) • Mina Rees • Neal Morse • Reuben Kosgei • Sam Worthington • Saskia van Uylenburgh • Simone Manuel • Steve Hillage • Viktor Zhirmunsky • Xavier Thaninayagam

Born in the same month (August 1884): Billie Burke • Denis G. Lillie • Harry Dean (cricketer) • Henri Cornet • Hermann Wlach • Hugo Gernsback • Rudolf Bultmann • Sara Teasdale • Theodor Svedberg • Will Cuppy