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Bernardo O'Higgins

1778 - 1842

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Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (Spanish pronunciation: [beɾˈnaɾðo oˈ(x)iɣins] ; 20 August 1778 – 24 October 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state. He was Captain General of the Chilean Army, Brigadier of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, General Officer of Gran Colombia and Grand Marshal of Peru. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernardo O'Higgins is the 2,534th most popular politician (down from 2,209th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Chile (down from 9th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chilean Politician.

Bernardo O'Higgins is most famous for being the first president of Chile.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 2,534 out of 19,576. Before him are Dihya, Empress Suiko, Yekuno Amlak, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and John VII Palaiologos. After him are Abdul Halim Khaddam, Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Artabanus II of Parthia, Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, and Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 11. Before him are Humphry Davy, José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. After him are Clemens Brentano, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Fernando Sor, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, and Ugo Foscolo. Among people deceased in 1842, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 5. Before him are Stendhal, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, and Constanze Mozart. After him are Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Robert Smith, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 10 out of 321. Before him are Gabriela Mistral (1889), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Michelle Bachelet (1951), Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901), Manuel Pellegrini (1953), and Víctor Jara (1932). After him are Sebastián Piñera (1949), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Claudio Arrau (1903), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Violeta Parra (1917), and Jorge Medina (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Chile

Among politicians born in Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins ranks 4. Before him are Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), and Michelle Bachelet (1951). After him are Sebastián Piñera (1949), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Ricardo Lagos (1938), Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Jorge Alessandri (1896), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), and José Manuel Balmaceda (1840).

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