deaths
November 20, 1936
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (born 1896)
Buenaventura Durruti
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant and a leading figure in Spanish anarchism before and during the Spanish Civil War. As a prominent member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), Durruti was a key protagonist in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and is remembered as a hero and martyr in the anarchist movement.