On 23 February Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil entered the Congress of Deputies, and stopped the session, where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo was about to be named prime minister of the government.

* February 23 – Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is about to be named president of the government.

It is also known as El Tejerazo from the name of its most visible figure, Antonio Tejero, who led the failed coup's most notable event: the bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies by a group of 200 armed officers of the Guardia Civil during the process of electing Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to be the country's new Prime Minister.

Among the best-known people who have attended Sapienza University of Rome are Somali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke ; Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ; Italian political leaders Franco Frattini and Antonio Tajani ; Italian Constitutional Court President Leopoldo Elia ; Roman Catholic Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe ; Nobel Laureate in Physics Emilio Segrè ; actors Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica ; archaeologist Carlo Fea ; architects Pietro Belluschi, Romaldo Giurgola and Massimiliano Fuksas ; astronaut Umberto Guidoni ; civil servant Mario Catania ; diplomat Sergio Balanzino ; economists Paolo Leon, Mario Draghi and Ignazio Visco ; footballers Valerio Fiori and Andrea Stramaccioni ; mathematicians Ennio De Giorgi and Gaetano Fichera ; microbiologist Clelia Giacobini ; physicists Domenico Pacini, Piero Giorgio Bordoni, Giovanni Ciccotti and Giorgio Parisi ; writers Daria Galateria and Cristina Ali Farah

On March 25, 1952, leader of Nueva Ecija composed of then Governor Leopoldo Diaz, Congressman Jesus Ilagan, and Board Members Dioscoro de Leon and Antonio Corpuz, Don Felipe Buencamino and all Mayors of Nueva Ecija called a special consultation meeting in Manila to discuss and consider the transfer of the capital of Nueva Ecija from Cabanatuan to other municipality.

Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani ( 1725 – 1813 ) was an Italian anatomist and physiologist.

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In 1959 he founded the Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana with Leopoldo Méndez, Gabriel Figueroa, Carlos Pellicer and Rafael Carrillo which produces books on Mexican art.

Leopoldo Nobili, born in 1784 in Trassilico ( Toscana ) and died 5 August 1835 in Florence, was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry.

Filipino members of the faculty began to assume more important positions, and as more of these faculty members took administrative roles, the Board of Trustees elected the University's first Filipino president, Dr. Leopoldo Ruiz, on August 26, 1952, officially taking office on April 1953.

The 2005 Copa América of Volleyball was the fifth edition of the Men's Volleyball Tournament, the America Cup of Volleyball, and it was played between August 3 and August 7 in the town of São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino ( born October 6, 1935 ) is a former Italian born American professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ), holding the title across two reigns for over 11 years in total, as well as the longest single WWE Championship reign in professional wrestling history.

# Leopoldo de ' Medici ( November 6, 1617 – November 10, 1675 ) died unmarried.

Leopoldo Laborde ( born on November 6, 1970 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and self-made producer.

The best of his critical work is collected in Los Oradores del Ateneo ( 1878 ), Los Novelistas españoles ( 1878 ), Nuevo viaje al Parnaso and La Literatura en 1881 ( 1882 ), this last being written in collaboration with Leopoldo Alas.

* La literatura en ( 1881 ), with Leopoldo Alas

* 1851 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist ( d. 1901 )

Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers – Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca – Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the 18th century.

* 1945 – Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor

* 1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator ( d. 2003 )

* May 3 – Leopoldo Luque, Argentine soccer player

* July 15 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator ( d. 2003 )

* June 13 – Leopoldo Alas, ' Clarín ', Spanisn novelist ( born 1852 )

* June 11 – Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer ( d. 1970 )

* June 18 – Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.

* January 13 – Spanish victory ( under General Leopoldo O ' Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuanat ) at the Battle of Tétouan in the Spanish-Moroccan War.

* July 14 – 15 – In Spain, General Leopoldo O ' Donnell takes control of the government, bringing an end to the bienio progresista.

# Leopoldo de Austria ( c. 1515 – 1557 ), Bishop of Córdoba, Spain ( 1541 – 1557 ), with illegitimate succession.

One of the most criticized measures of his administration was the pardon he granted on December 29, 1990, to Jorge Videla, Emilio Massera, Leopoldo Galtieri and other leaders of the 1976 – 83 dictatorship convicted in the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, and some guerrilla leaders as well, on the grounds of " national reconciliation ".

* Antígona Vélez ( 1950 ) adaptation of Sophocles ' play by Argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal ( 1900 – 1970 )

* Leopoldo Zea Aguilar ( 1912 – 2004 ), Mexican philosopher

* January 12: Leopoldo Galtieri, former president of Argentina ( 1981 – 1982 )

* 1867 – 1895 Leopoldo Zelli Jacobuzi

* Fetonte ( Stuttgart, 1753 ) – libretto by Leopoldo de Villati

* Spain: When Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo was Prime Minister of Spain ( 1981 – 1982 ), Ministers of State were created who held a more distinct position within the Government.

Francis II (, christened Francesco d ' Assisi Maria Leopoldo, 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894 ), was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861.

* Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, ( b. May 5, 1924 d. September 8, 1978 )-acclaimed Argentine film director

* Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo e Ibáñez-Martín ( b. Madrid, 4 September 1957 ), 2nd Marquess of Ría de Ribadeo, married to Cristina Egea y Gutiérrez-Cortines.

His ministry succeeded that of General Leopoldo O ' Donnell for a short time as 45th Prime Minister between 12 October 1856 and 15 October 1856, and he again returned to power for a few months as 52nd Prime Minister between 16 September 1864 and 19 May 1865.