![President of the Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña](https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/manuel-azana.jpg?w=360)
Full Name: Manuel Azaña y Díaz
Profession: President of the Spanish Republic
Nationality: ![Spain](https://www.onthisday.com/images/flags/spain.svg)
Spanish
Biography: Prime Minister of Spain during the early 1930s and later President of the Spanish Republic from 1936 until its fall in March 1939 to the Nationalists.
Born: January 10, 1880
Birthplace: Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Star Sign: Capricorn
Died: November 4, 1940 (aged 60)
Cause of Death: Heart attack while in exile in Nazi occupied France
Historical Events
- 1931-12-10 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain with Niceto Zamora as President
- 1933-09-08 Second Spanish government of Manuel Azaña forms
- 1936-02-19 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain for the second time
- 1936-05-10 Manuel Azaña elected the second President of the Spanish Republic