Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (died 1973)

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.

The president of Cuba, officially the president of the Republic of Cuba, is the head of state of Cuba. The office in its current form was established under the Constitution of 2019. The President is the second-highest office in Cuba and the highest state office. Miguel Díaz-Canel became President of the Council of State on 19 April 2018, taking over from Raúl Castro, and has been President of Cuba since 10 October 2019.

January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 349 days remain until the end of the year.