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Buenaventura Durruti

1896 - 1936

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José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish anarchist revolutionary involved with the CNT and the FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and is remembered as a hero in and by the anarchist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Buenaventura Durruti is the 84th most popular social activist (down from 71st in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Spain (down from 170th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Social Activist.

Buenaventura Durruti was a Spanish anarchist who is most famous for leading the military wing of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Buenaventura Durruti ranks 84 out of 840. Before him are Anneliese Michel, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Martin Niemöller, Liu Xiaobo, Jenny von Westphalen, and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. After him are Dragutin Dimitrijević, Axel Munthe, Lê Đức Thọ, Jimmy Hoffa, Alexei Navalny, and Widukind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Buenaventura Durruti ranks 30. Before him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Howard Hawks, A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, Leslie Groves, and Donald Winnicott. After him are Anna Anderson, Ernst Udet, Erich Koch, Sandro Pertini, Léon Theremin, and Oswald Mosley. Among people deceased in 1936, Buenaventura Durruti ranks 29. Before him are Louis Blériot, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hans von Seeckt, Elsa Einstein, Karl Kraus, and Premchand. After him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Moritz Schlick, Antoine Meillet, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Georg Michaelis, and Anne Sullivan.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Buenaventura Durruti ranks 204 out of 3,355. Before him are Luis de Góngora (1561), Philip, Duke of Parma (1720), Alfonso VII of León and Castile (1105), Martin of Aragon (1356), Pedro de Alvarado (1485), and Leo Africanus (1494). After him are Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1240), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), John I of Castile (1358), Alfonso IX of León (1171), Ferdinand I of León (1016), and Almanzor (930).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Spain

Among social activists born in Spain, Buenaventura Durruti ranks 1. After him are Salvador Puig Antich (1948), Lucio Urtubia (1931), Enric Duran (1976), and Pablo Hasél (1988).

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