MILITARY PERSONNEL

Juan Martín Díez

1775 - 1825

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Juan Martín Díez, nicknamed El Empecinado (Spanish: the Undaunted), (5 September 1775 – 20 August 1825) was a Spanish military leader and guerrilla fighter, who fought in the Peninsular War. On October 8, 1808, the privilege of using the name Empecinado was granted to Juan Martín Díez, not only for himself, but also all his descendants. His nickname has given the Spanish language the verb empecinarse, meaning to persist or insist on achieving one's goals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Martín Díez is the 1,632nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,169th in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 908th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Spanish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Juan Martín Díez ranks 1,632 out of 2,058. Before him are Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Itō Sukeyuki, Koos de la Rey, Nikolaos Trikoupis, and Filipp Oktyabrsky. After him are Yevfimiy Putyatin, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, François de Créquy, Flora Sandes, Erick-Oskar Hansen, and Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Juan Martín Díez ranks 38. Before him are Stefan Bogoridi, Charles Lamb, François Marius Granet, Carlo Rossi, Adolf Stieler, and Thomas Girtin. After him are Anna Harrison, Bhimsen Thapa, William Thompson, Walter Savage Landor, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and Honoré Charles Reille. Among people deceased in 1825, Juan Martín Díez ranks 28. Before him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Jan Václav Voříšek, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, and Peter Winter. After him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Wilhelm Hemprich, Utagawa Toyokuni, Maha Bandula, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Yakov Sannikov.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Martín Díez ranks 1,302 out of 3,355. Before him are Leonardo Cilaurren (1912), Blas Infante (1885), Manuel Jiménez Jiménez (1964), Ricardo Gallego (1959), Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi (1927), and Romà Forns (1885). After him are Jesús María Satrústegui (1954), Sígfrid Gràcia (1932), Arcadio Larraona Saralegui (1887), Manuel Portela Valladares (1867), Francisco Rizi (1614), and Diego Abad de Santillán (1897).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Spain

Among military personnels born in Spain, Juan Martín Díez ranks 30. Before him are Gonzalo Queipo de Llano (1875), Gonzalo Guerrero (1470), José Enrique Varela (1891), Vicente Rojo Lluch (1894), José Millán-Astray (1879), and Juan Modesto (1906). After him are Berenguer de Palou II (1101), Fidel Dávila Arrondo (1878), Francisco Ascaso (1901), Tomás de Zumalacárregui (1788), Valentín González (1904), and José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza (1775).

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