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Also Known As Don Juan de Austria • Don John of Austria
Born February 24, 1547 • Regensburg • Germany
Died October 1, 1578 (aged 31) • near Namur • Spanish Netherlands
Title / Office governor-general (1576-1578), Netherlands
Notable Family Members father Charles V
Role In Battle of Lepanto
Sokollu Mehmed Paşa
Ottoman vizier
Santa Cruz, Álvaro de Bazán, Marqués de
Álvaro de Bazán, Marqués de Santa Cruz
Spanish naval commander
Pascual Cervera y Topete
Spanish admiral
José Patiño, marquis de Patiño
Spanish statesman
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, engraving.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Spanish conquistador
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, duke de Medina-Sidonia
Spanish admiral
Juan Díaz de Solís
Spanish explorer
John Connally
American politician
Francesco Morosini
Italian military leader
James Stockdale
United States admiral
Mildred Helen McAfee
American educator and military commander
Husband Edward Kimmel
United States Navy officer
Tim Sheehy
American politician
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Pericles
Pericles
Athenian statesman
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake
English admiral