Salvador Allende

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a democratic socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.

26 June 1908

Born on the same birth day (26 June): Big Bill Broonzy • Diego Falcinelli • Dustin Martin • Ed Bearss • Edward Holyoke • Fernando Mönckeberg Barros • Georg Brandt • George Hainsworth • Hollie Arnold • Irv Gotti • Matt Letscher • Michael Vick • Raymond Felton • Robert Coleman Richardson • Robert Kroetsch • Ryan Tedder

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