Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

male, deceased (2006)
anti-communist, General, President of Chile, Heads of state, From Valparaiso, Captain General…1973 Chilean coup d'état, chilean
"' The junta members originally planned for the presidency to rotate among the commanders-in-chief of the four military branches. However, Pinochet...
Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

male, deceased (1973) (Centennial, United States)
President of Chile, 1973 Chilean coup d'état, death by firearm in Chile, Marxist, ousted in a coup, Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens…chilean, Chilean President
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death, reportedly by su...
Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

male, deceased (1973)
Maihue Lake, Stalin Prize winner, Estadio Nacional, Estadio Nacional de Chile, González Videla, Prostate cancer death…chilean
Pablo Neruda was the penname and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Having h...
Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Lagos

male, 71 years old
President of Chile, Recipient of the Star of Romania Order, Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar, Chilean democracy activist, Coalition of Parties for Democracy, Independent Democrat Union…chilean
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won t...
Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

female (California)
Peruvian-American, Magic realism writer, bolivia, chilean, lima, naturalized citizen of the United States…Chilean-American, Chilean writer born in Peru in 1943. Her father, Chilean-born novelist
Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer born in Peru in 1943. Her father, who was serving as a Chilean diplomat in El Peru when Isabel was born, was the...
Employment: …Chilean writer
Pedro de Valdivia

Pedro de Valdivia

male, deceased (1554)
spanish conquistador, concepcion, City founder, flanders, chilean, badajoz
Pedro de Valdivia was a conquistador and first royal governor of Chile. He was the founder of various cities within the territory, including...
Orlando Letelier

Orlando Letelier

male, deceased (1976)
ambassador to the United States, dina, activist, Operation Condor, chilean, diplomat…Assassinated Chilean
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (April 13, 1932 - September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist, political figure, diplomat and, later, US-based...
Bernardo O'Higgins

Bernardo O'Higgins

male, deceased (1842)
Irish-Spaniard, spanish, Heads of state, from Chillan, Freemason, General…chilean, Chilean War of Independence
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, South American independence leader, was one of the commanders - together with José de San Martín - of the military fo...
Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman

male, 67 years old (Durham, North Carolina, United States)
Academic, Literary critic, Chile coup, military coup, Latin Americanist, Latin American Studies…Chilean-American, chilean
Ariel Dorfman (born May 6 1942 Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. Dorfman,...
Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

female, deceased (1957)
Nobel Prize for Literature, Nobel laureate in Literature, Schoolteacher, poet, writer, feminism…chilean
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was t...