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Reynaldo Bignone

1928 - 2018

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Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone (21 January 1928 – 7 March 2018) was an Argentine general who served as the de facto President of Argentina from 1 July 1982 to 10 December 1983, the last president to serve under the National Reorganization Process. In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of persons suspected of opposing the government during the Dirty War. He was the dictator who ordered the destruction of all documentation on the disappeared. His only contribution to the rule of law was the handover of command to Raúl Alfonsín. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reynaldo Bignone is the 3,583rd most popular politician (down from 2,908th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 34th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Argentinean Politician.

Reynaldo Bignone is most famous for being the president of Argentina from 1982 to 1983 and for being a part of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Reynaldo Bignone ranks 3,583 out of 19,576. Before him are Kim Jae-gyu, Aga Khan III, Thessalonike of Macedon, Stephen IV of Hungary, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep. After him are Kais Saied, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Choummaly Sayasone, Paul Kruger, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, and Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Reynaldo Bignone ranks 60. Before him are Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Peyo, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Daniel Nathans, Osamu Shimomura, and Hardy Krüger. After him are Karlheinz Böhm, Takeshi Inoue, Jacques Rivette, Ján Zachara, Geert Hofstede, and Alan J. Pakula. Among people deceased in 2018, Reynaldo Bignone ranks 60. Before him are Robert Venturi, R. Lee Ermey, Shoko Asahara, Osamu Shimomura, Stéphane Audran, and Michael Halliday. After him are Francis Lai, Wim Kok, Claude Lanzmann, Tsukasa Hosaka, Milena Dravić, and Joël Robuchon.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone ranks 40 out of 1,154. Before him are Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1971), Carlos Reutemann (1942), Hernán Crespo (1975), Alberto Fernández (1959), Marcelo Bielsa (1955), and Luis Monti (1901). After him are Javier Zanetti (1973), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Héctor Cúper (1955), Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793), Fernando de la Rúa (1937), and Lucio Fontana (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone ranks 12. Before him are Carlos Menem (1930), Néstor Kirchner (1950), Leopoldo Galtieri (1926), Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Richard Walther Darré (1895), and Alberto Fernández (1959). After him are Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793), Fernando de la Rúa (1937), Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Violet Jessop (1887), and Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924).

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