Statue of Alfonso, dressed as a battler, in the Parque Grande José Antonio Labordeta in Zaragoza, the city he recovered from the Muslims and made his capital.

* 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer, nobleman, and politician, founder of the Falange ( d. 1936 )

In 1812, a mixed-race abolitionist conspiracy arose, organized by José Antonio Aponte, a free black carpenter in Havana.

The 1830s saw a surge of the reformist movement, whose main leader was José Antonio Saco, standing out for his criticism of Spanish despotism and the slave trade.

José Antonio Saco, one of Cuba's foremost thinkers, was expelled from Cuba.

* De Paz Sánchez, Manuel Antonio ( en colaboración con José Fernández y Nelson López ) 1993 – 1994.

Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales's " Yo Soy Joaquin " is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano / a novel.

* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

General Antonio José de Sucre, Commander In Chief, División del Sur

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

However, the coup de grâce for Mahuad's administration was Mahuad's decision to make the local currency, the sucre ( named after Antonio José de Sucre ), obsolete and replace it with the U. S. dollar ( a policy called dollarization ).

" Spanish Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera said: " basically the Right stands for the maintenance of an economic structure, albeit an unjust one, while the Left stands for the attempt to subvert that economic structure, even though the subversion thereof would entail the destruction of much that was worthwhile ".

Spanish Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera did not believe that corporatism was effective and denounced it as a propaganda ploy, saying " this stuff about the corporative state is another piece of windbaggery ".

* de Rivera, José Antonio Primo.

* 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.

After receiving instruction from Padre Antonio José Martínez, he was baptized into the Catholic Church in 1842.

* 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.

* 1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer ( d. 2006 )

* 1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician ( b. 1904 )

In the aftermath, a second lieutenant ( Ricardo Massaferro ), a sergeant ( Víctor Sanabria ) and ten soldiers ( Antonio Arrieta, Heriberto Ávalos, José Coronel, Dante Salvatierra, Ismael Sánchez, Tomás Sánchez, Edmundo Sosa, Marcelino Torantes, Alberto Villalba and Hermindo Luna ) were killed and several wounded ; the Montoneros lost 16 men in the fighting and mop-up operations that night.

* 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.

* Day of Tradition or Día de la Tradición, celebrated on the birthday of José Hernández ( Argentina, especially San Antonio de Areco )

A coalition between the pro-independence Union Party presided by Antonio R. Barceló and the pro-statehood Republican Party of Puerto Rico presided by José Tous Soto called the " Alianza Puertorriqueña " was formed.

* 1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer

* José Cortéz ( born May 1975 ), professional NFL place-kicker

José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945 ) is a Nicaraguan politician.

Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador.

Furtado was born on December 2, 1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, to Portuguese parents, Maria Manuela and António José Furtado, both immigrants from the Azores.

José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL (; born 26 December 1949 ) was the President of East Timor from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012, the second since independence from Indonesia.

José Antonio Domínguez Banderas ( born 10 August 1960 ), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer.

Banderas was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, on 10 August 1960, to Ana Banderas, a school teacher, and José Domínguez, a police officer in the Guardia Civil.

Although some people believe he was actually born in the Bolívar residence located in San Mateo in Aragua State, which belonged to the Caracas province by 1783, it is officially claimed that Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela ( now the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ), on July 24, 1783 and he was baptized as Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (, born José Alexandre Gusmão,, on 20 June 1946 ) is an East Timorese politician.

In 1971, Gusmão completed his national service, his son was born, and he became involved with a nationalist organization headed by José Ramos-Horta.

Father Narciso Durán became the pastor of the mission in 1806, and remained until he was replaced by Father José González Rubio in February 1833 as part of a post-independence policy requiring the replacement of Spanish-born clerics with those born in Mexico.

* Francisco José Castro Fernandes ( born 1981 ), Portuguese footballer known as " Chico "

* José Manuel Flores Moreno ( born 1987 ), Spanish footballer known as " Chico "

* José Dumont ( born 1950 ), Brazilian TV and movie actor

Joseph ( José ) Bové ( born June 11, 1953 in Talence, Gironde ) is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina.

* José Luis Ballester ( born 1969 ), Olympic butterfly swimmer

José Miguel González Martín del Campo, aka Míchel ( born 23 March 1963 in Madrid ), is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right midfielder, and a current coach.

* José Ramos-Horta ( born 1949 ), an East Timor politician

Dr. Rafael José Diaz ( born April 22, 1955 ) is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital.

* José de Jesús Méndez Vargas ( born 1974 ), nickname El Chango, alleged Mexican drug cartel leader