CITY

Official Website:
http://www.df.gob.mx/

Population:
8,605,239 (2000 census)

Greater Mexico City area, population 17,809,471 according to 2000 census.

NEWSPAPERS

Newspaper
La Jornada
The Mexico City News

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Universidad Iberoamericana	1943
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	1551

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
America Movil	2000
Telefonos de Mexico	1947
Empresas ICA	1947
Banco Nacional de México	1884
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
Nadro

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ana Alicia	Actor	12-Dec-1956		Melissa Gioberti on Falcon Crest
Anahí	Singer/Songwriter	14-May-1983		RBD
María Asunción Aramburuzabala	Business	2-May-1963		Grupo Modelo billionaire
Pedro Armendáriz	Actor	9-May-1912	18-Jun-1963	From Russia with Love
Pedro Aspe	Economist	7-Jul-1950		Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94
Kuno Becker	Actor	14-Jan-1978		Goal!
Demián Bichir	Actor	1-Aug-1963		A Better Life
Cantinflas	Actor	12-Aug-1911	20-Apr-1993	Around the World in Eighty Days
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas	Politician	1-May-1934		Anti-PRI Mexican politician
Ana María Cetto	Scientist	1946		Mexican physicist
Carlos Chávez	Composer	13-Jun-1899	2-Aug-1978	Sinfonía de Antígona
Chespirito	Screenwriter	21-Feb-1929	28-Nov-2014	Chespirito
Santiago Creel	Politician	11-Dec-1954		President of the PAN Senate Delegation
Alfonso Cuarón	Film Director	28-Nov-1961		Children of Men
Luis Echeverría	Head of State	17-Jan-1922		President of Mexico, 1970-76
Vicente Fox	Head of State	2-Jul-1942		President of Mexico, 2000-06
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora	Mathematician	20-Aug-1645	22-Aug-1700	Mathematician, historian of the New World
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Carlos Slim Helu	Business	28-Jan-1940		World's richest man, 2010
Maria Hinojosa	Journalist	1961		CNN, NPR journalist
Miguel de Icaza	Computer Programmer	c. 1973		Founder of Gnome project
Alejandro González Iñárritu	Film Director	15-Aug-1963		Babel
Pedro Lascurain	Head of State	8-May-1856	21-Jul-1952	President of Mexico for 25 minutes
Diego Luna	Actor	29-Dec-1979		Y tu Mamá También
Margo	Actor	10-May-1917	17-Jul-1985	Lost Horizon
Eduardo Mata	Conductor	5-Sep-1942	4-Jan-1995	Music Director, Dallas Symphony, 1977-93
Martha Miller de Lombera	Business	c. 1948		Former VP at Procter and Gamble
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Ricardo Montalban	Actor	25-Nov-1920	14-Jan-2009	Roarke on Fantasy Island
Lupita Nyong'o	Actor	1-Mar-1983		12 Years a Slave
Rafael Osuna	Tennis	15-Sep-1938	4-Jun-1969	Winner of 4 Grand Slam titles
Octavio Paz	Poet	31-Mar-1914	19-Apr-1998	The Labyrinth of Solitude
José López Portillo	Head of State	16-Jun-1920	17-Feb-2004	President of Mexico, 1976-82
Jaime Serra Puche	Government	11-Jan-1951		Mexican Secretary of Trade, 1988-94
Rosario Robles	Politician	1956		Mayor of Mexico City, 1999-2000
Paulina Rubio	Singer	17-Jun-1971		Pau-Latina
Joaquin Ruiz	Educator	1951		Science Dean, University of Arizona
Carlos Ruiz Sacristán	Business	27-Oct-1949		Proyectos Estrategicos Integrales
Hugo Sánchez	Soccer	11-Jul-1958		Mexico's best soccer player
Charles Seeger	Musicologist	14-Dec-1886	7-Feb-1979	American musicologist
Thalia	Singer	26-Aug-1971		Latin soap opera queen and pop star
Victor Trujillo	TV Personality	19-Jun-1961		Brozo the Clown of Darkness
Mario Van Peebles	Actor	15-Jan-1957		Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Ernesto Zedillo	Head of State	27-Dec-1951		President of Mexico, 1994-2000

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joan Vollmer Adams	Victim	1924	6-Sep-1951	Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
Jacobo Arbenz	Head of State	14-Sep-1913	27-Jan-1971	President of Guatemala, 1951-54
Luis Barragán	Architect	9-Mar-1902	22-Nov-1988	Torres de Satélite
Alfonso Bedoya	Actor	16-Apr-1904	15-Dec-1957	Doesn't need no stinking badges
Luis Buñuel	Film Director	22-Feb-1900	29-Jul-1983	That Obscure Object of Desire
Plutarco Elías Calles	Head of State	25-Sep-1877	19-Oct-1945	President of Mexico, 1924-28
Manuel Ávila Camacho	Head of State	24-Apr-1897	13-Oct-1955	President of Mexico, 1940-46
Cantinflas	Actor	12-Aug-1911	20-Apr-1993	Around the World in Eighty Days
Lázaro Cárdenas	Head of State	21-May-1895	19-Oct-1970	President of Mexico, 1934-40
Leonora Carrington	Painter	6-Apr-1917	25-May-2011	Last surviving Surrealist
Luis Cernuda	Poet	21-Sep-1902	5-Nov-1963	Generation of '27
Ilka Chase	Actor	8-Apr-1900	15-Feb-1978	Now, Voyager
Carlos Chávez	Composer	13-Jun-1899	2-Aug-1978	Sinfonía de Antígona
Arturo de Córdova	Actor	8-May-1907	3-Nov-1973	El
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado	Explorer	c. 1510	22-Sep-1554	Discovered the Grand Canyon
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines	Head of State	30-Dec-1890	3-Dec-1973	President of Mexico, 1952-58
Marty Feldman	Comic	8-Jul-1933	2-Dec-1982	Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein
Maria Felix	Actor	8-Apr-1914	8-Apr-2002	The most famous Mexican movie star
Carlos Fuentes	Novelist	11-Nov-1928	15-May-2012	La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Gabriel García Márquez	Novelist	6-Mar-1927	17-Apr-2014	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora	Mathematician	20-Aug-1645	22-Aug-1700	Mathematician, historian of the New World
Sigrid Gurie	Actor	18-May-1911	14-Aug-1969	Algiers
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Frida Kahlo	Painter	6-Jul-1907	13-Jul-1954	Unibrowed Mexican painter
Pedro Lascurain	Head of State	8-May-1856	21-Jul-1952	President of Mexico for 25 minutes
Francisco Madero	Head of State	30-Oct-1873	22-Feb-1913	El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13
Miguel de la Madrid	Head of State	12-Dec-1934	1-Apr-2012	President of Mexico, 1982-88
Adolfo López Mateos	Head of State	26-May-1910	22-Sep-1969	President of Mexico, 1958-64
Manuel Gomez Morin	Politician	27-Feb-1897	19-Apr-1972	One of the Seven Sages of Mexico
Willard Motley	Author	14-Jul-1909	4-Mar-1965	The original Bud Billiken
Conlon Nancarrow	Composer	27-Oct-1912	10-Aug-1997	Studies for Player Piano
Philip Ober	Actor	23-Mar-1902	13-Sep-1982	From Here to Eternity
Álvaro Obregón	Head of State	19-Feb-1880	17-Jul-1928	President of Mexico, 1920-24
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz	Head of State	12-Mar-1911	15-Jul-1979	President of Mexico, 1964-70
José Clemente Orozco	Painter	23-Nov-1883	7-Sep-1949	20th c. Mexican muralist
Octavio Paz	Poet	31-Mar-1914	19-Apr-1998	The Labyrinth of Solitude
José López Portillo	Head of State	16-Jun-1920	17-Feb-2004	President of Mexico, 1976-82
José Guadalupe Posada	Engraver	2-Feb-1851	20-Jan-1913	Mexican printmaker
Perez Prado	Musician	11-Dec-1916	14-Sep-1989	Mambo king ("Dilo!")
Alfonso Reyes	Author	17-May-1889	27-Dec-1959	Visión de Anáhuac
Diego Rivera	Painter	8-Dec-1886	24-Nov-1957	Mexican painter
Antonio López de Santa Anna	Military	21-Feb-1794	21-Jun-1876	Hero of Tampico
Santo	Wrestling	23-Sep-1917	5-Feb-1984	The Silver-Masked Man
Rufino Tamayo	Painter	c. 1900	24-Jun-1991	Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros
B. Traven	Novelist	c. 1890	26-Mar-1969	Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Leon Trotsky	Activist	26-Oct-1879	21-Aug-1940	Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin
Miguel Alemán Valdés	Head of State	29-Sep-1900	14-May-1983	President of Mexico, 1946-52
James Wilkinson	Military	1757	28-Dec-1825	Duplicitous soldier and adventurer

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