SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Túpac Katari

1750 - 1781

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Túpac Katari or Catari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – 13 November 1781), born Julián Apasa Nina, was the indigenous Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru (now Bolivia), laying siege to La Paz for six months. His wife Bartolina Sisa and his sister Gregoria Apaza participated in the rebellion by his side. The rebellion was ultimately put down by Spanish loyalists and Katari was executed by quartering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Túpac Katari is the 307th most popular social activist (down from 297th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Bolivia (up from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Bolivian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Túpac Katari ranks 307 out of 840Before him are Harilal Gandhi, Catherine Breshkovsky, Lucio Urtubia, Louise Bryant, Anna Hazare, and Johannes Kleiman. After him are Khudiram Bose, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Martin Guerre, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kazimierz Świątek, and Mohamed Bouazizi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Túpac Katari ranks 30Before him are Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Bathilde d'Orléans, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Jacques-François Menou, Sylvain Maréchal, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden. After him are Hugo Kołłątaj, Yazid of Morocco, Anton Stamitz, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Henry Knox, and Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Among people deceased in 1781, Túpac Katari ranks 13Before him are Ablai Khan, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Faustina Bordoni, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, and John Needham. After him are Johannes Ewald, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Bartolina Sisa, Micaela Bastidas, Tobias Furneaux, and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Túpac Katari ranks 11 out of 105Before him are Mario Terán (1942), Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921), Luis García Meza (1929), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), and Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792). After him are Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), Carlos Mesa (1953), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Toribio Ticona Porco (1937), and Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Bolivia

Among social activists born in Bolivia, Túpac Katari ranks 1