LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/

Population:
1.35M (2004)

Founding Date:
24-Dec-1726

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jorge Pacheco Areco	Head of State	8-Nov-1920	29-Jul-1998	President of Uruguay, 1967-72
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez	Head of State	25-Oct-1927	24-Oct-2016	President of Uruguay, 2000-05
Juan Maria Bordaberry	Head of State	17-Jun-1928	17-Jul-2011	President of Uruguay, 1972-76
David Edgerton	Historian	16-Apr-1959		The Shock of the Old
Jefferson Hack	Publisher	20-Jun-1971		Editor of Dazed & Confused
Felisberto Hernández	Author	20-Oct-1902	13-Jan-1964	Nadie encendía las lámparas
Luis Alberto Lacalle	Head of State	13-Jul-1941		President of Uruguay, 1990-95
Jules Laforgue	Poet	16-Aug-1860	20-Aug-1887	Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Comte de Lautréamont	Poet	4-Apr-1846	24-Nov-1870	Les Chants de Maldoror
Jose Mujica	Head of State	20-May-1934		President of Uruguay, 2010-15
Cristina Peri Rossi	Author	12-Nov-1941		Los Museos Abandonados
Julio María Sanguinetti	Head of State	6-Jan-1936		Twice President of Uruguay
Tabaré Vázquez	Head of State	17-Jan-1940		President-Elect of Uruguay
China Zorrilla	Actor	14-Mar-1922	17-Sep-2014	Elsa & Fred

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jorge Pacheco Areco	Head of State	8-Nov-1920	29-Jul-1998	President of Uruguay, 1967-72
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez	Head of State	25-Oct-1927	24-Oct-2016	President of Uruguay, 2000-05
Felisberto Hernández	Author	20-Oct-1902	13-Jan-1964	Nadie encendía las lámparas
Aparicio Méndez	Head of State	24-Aug-1904	26-Jun-1988	President of Uruguay, 1976-81
Amado Nervo	Poet	27-Aug-1870	24-May-1919	Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
China Zorrilla	Actor	14-Mar-1922	17-Sep-2014	Elsa & Fred

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