CITY

Official Website:
http://www.df.gob.mx/

Population:
8,605,239 (2000 census)

Greater Mexico City area, population 17,809,471 according to 2000 census.

NEWSPAPERS

Newspaper
La Jornada
The Mexico City News

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Universidad Iberoamericana	1943
Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico	1551

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
America Movil	2000
Telefonos de Mexico	1947
Empresas ICA	1947
Banco Nacional de M�xico	1884
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
Nadro

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ana Alicia	Actor	12-Dec-1956		Melissa Gioberti on Falcon Crest
Anahí	Singer/Songwriter	14-May-1983		RBD
María Asunción Aramburuzabala	Business	2-May-1963		Grupo Modelo billionaire
Pedro Armendáriz	Actor	9-May-1912	18-Jun-1963	From Russia with Love
Pedro Aspe	Economist	7-Jul-1950		Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94
Kuno Becker	Actor	14-Jan-1978		Goal!
Demián Bichir	Actor	1-Aug-1963		A Better Life
Cantinflas	Actor	12-Aug-1911	20-Apr-1993	Around the World in Eighty Days
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas	Politician	1-May-1934		Anti-PRI Mexican politician
Ana María Cetto	Scientist	1946		Mexican physicist
Carlos Chávez	Composer	13-Jun-1899	2-Aug-1978	Sinfon�a de Ant�gona
Chespirito	Screenwriter	21-Feb-1929	28-Nov-2014	Chespirito
Santiago Creel	Politician	11-Dec-1954		President of the PAN Senate Delegation
Alfonso Cuarón	Film Director	28-Nov-1961		Children of Men
Luis Echeverría	Head of State	17-Jan-1922		President of Mexico, 1970-76
Vicente Fox	Head of State	2-Jul-1942		President of Mexico, 2000-06
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora	Mathematician	20-Aug-1645	22-Aug-1700	Mathematician, historian of the New World
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Carlos Slim Helu	Business	28-Jan-1940		World's richest man, 2010
Maria Hinojosa	Journalist	1961		CNN, NPR journalist
Miguel de Icaza	Computer Programmer	c. 1973		Founder of Gnome project
Alejandro González Iñárritu	Film Director	15-Aug-1963		Babel
Pedro Lascurain	Head of State	8-May-1856	21-Jul-1952	President of Mexico for 25 minutes
Diego Luna	Actor	29-Dec-1979		Y tu Mam� Tambi�n
Margo	Actor	10-May-1917	17-Jul-1985	Lost Horizon
Eduardo Mata	Conductor	5-Sep-1942	4-Jan-1995	Music Director, Dallas Symphony, 1977-93
Martha Miller de Lombera	Business	c. 1948		Former VP at Procter and Gamble
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Ricardo Montalban	Actor	25-Nov-1920	14-Jan-2009	Roarke on Fantasy Island
Lupita Nyong'o	Actor	1-Mar-1983		12 Years a Slave
Rafael Osuna	Tennis	15-Sep-1938	4-Jun-1969	Winner of 4 Grand Slam titles
Octavio Paz	Poet	31-Mar-1914	19-Apr-1998	The Labyrinth of Solitude
José López Portillo	Head of State	16-Jun-1920	17-Feb-2004	President of Mexico, 1976-82
Jaime Serra Puche	Government	11-Jan-1951		Mexican Secretary of Trade, 1988-94
Rosario Robles	Politician	1956		Mayor of Mexico City, 1999-2000
Paulina Rubio	Singer	17-Jun-1971		Pau-Latina
Joaquin Ruiz	Educator	1951		Science Dean, University of Arizona
Carlos Ruiz Sacristán	Business	27-Oct-1949		Proyectos Estrategicos Integrales
Hugo Sánchez	Soccer	11-Jul-1958		Mexico's best soccer player
Charles Seeger	Musicologist	14-Dec-1886	7-Feb-1979	American musicologist
Thalia	Singer	26-Aug-1971		Latin soap opera queen and pop star
Victor Trujillo	TV Personality	19-Jun-1961		Brozo the Clown of Darkness
Mario Van Peebles	Actor	15-Jan-1957		Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Ernesto Zedillo	Head of State	27-Dec-1951		President of Mexico, 1994-2000

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joan Vollmer Adams	Victim	1924	6-Sep-1951	Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
Jacobo Arbenz	Head of State	14-Sep-1913	27-Jan-1971	President of Guatemala, 1951-54
Luis Barragán	Architect	9-Mar-1902	22-Nov-1988	Torres de Sat�lite
Alfonso Bedoya	Actor	16-Apr-1904	15-Dec-1957	Doesn't need no stinking badges
Luis Buñuel	Film Director	22-Feb-1900	29-Jul-1983	That Obscure Object of Desire
Plutarco Elías Calles	Head of State	25-Sep-1877	19-Oct-1945	President of Mexico, 1924-28
Manuel Ávila Camacho	Head of State	24-Apr-1897	13-Oct-1955	President of Mexico, 1940-46
Cantinflas	Actor	12-Aug-1911	20-Apr-1993	Around the World in Eighty Days
Lázaro Cárdenas	Head of State	21-May-1895	19-Oct-1970	President of Mexico, 1934-40
Leonora Carrington	Painter	6-Apr-1917	25-May-2011	Last surviving Surrealist
Luis Cernuda	Poet	21-Sep-1902	5-Nov-1963	Generation of '27
Ilka Chase	Actor	8-Apr-1900	15-Feb-1978	Now, Voyager
Carlos Chávez	Composer	13-Jun-1899	2-Aug-1978	Sinfon�a de Ant�gona
Arturo de Córdova	Actor	8-May-1907	3-Nov-1973	El
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado	Explorer	c. 1510	22-Sep-1554	Discovered the Grand Canyon
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines	Head of State	30-Dec-1890	3-Dec-1973	President of Mexico, 1952-58
Marty Feldman	Comic	8-Jul-1933	2-Dec-1982	Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein
Maria Felix	Actor	8-Apr-1914	8-Apr-2002	The most famous Mexican movie star
Carlos Fuentes	Novelist	11-Nov-1928	15-May-2012	La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Gabriel García Márquez	Novelist	6-Mar-1927	17-Apr-2014	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora	Mathematician	20-Aug-1645	22-Aug-1700	Mathematician, historian of the New World
Sigrid Gurie	Actor	18-May-1911	14-Aug-1969	Algiers
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Frida Kahlo	Painter	6-Jul-1907	13-Jul-1954	Unibrowed Mexican painter
Pedro Lascurain	Head of State	8-May-1856	21-Jul-1952	President of Mexico for 25 minutes
Francisco Madero	Head of State	30-Oct-1873	22-Feb-1913	El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13
Miguel de la Madrid	Head of State	12-Dec-1934	1-Apr-2012	President of Mexico, 1982-88
Adolfo López Mateos	Head of State	26-May-1910	22-Sep-1969	President of Mexico, 1958-64
Manuel Gomez Morin	Politician	27-Feb-1897	19-Apr-1972	One of the Seven Sages of Mexico
Willard Motley	Author	14-Jul-1909	4-Mar-1965	The original Bud Billiken
Conlon Nancarrow	Composer	27-Oct-1912	10-Aug-1997	Studies for Player Piano
Philip Ober	Actor	23-Mar-1902	13-Sep-1982	From Here to Eternity
Álvaro Obregón	Head of State	19-Feb-1880	17-Jul-1928	President of Mexico, 1920-24
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz	Head of State	12-Mar-1911	15-Jul-1979	President of Mexico, 1964-70
José Clemente Orozco	Painter	23-Nov-1883	7-Sep-1949	20th c. Mexican muralist
Octavio Paz	Poet	31-Mar-1914	19-Apr-1998	The Labyrinth of Solitude
José López Portillo	Head of State	16-Jun-1920	17-Feb-2004	President of Mexico, 1976-82
José Guadalupe Posada	Engraver	2-Feb-1851	20-Jan-1913	Mexican printmaker
Perez Prado	Musician	11-Dec-1916	14-Sep-1989	Mambo king ("Dilo!")
Alfonso Reyes	Author	17-May-1889	27-Dec-1959	Visi�n de An�huac
Diego Rivera	Painter	8-Dec-1886	24-Nov-1957	Mexican painter
Antonio López de Santa Anna	Military	21-Feb-1794	21-Jun-1876	Hero of Tampico
Santo	Wrestling	23-Sep-1917	5-Feb-1984	The Silver-Masked Man
Rufino Tamayo	Painter	c. 1900	24-Jun-1991	Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros
B. Traven	Novelist	c. 1890	26-Mar-1969	Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Leon Trotsky	Activist	26-Oct-1879	21-Aug-1940	Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin
Miguel Alemán Valdés	Head of State	29-Sep-1900	14-May-1983	President of Mexico, 1946-52
James Wilkinson	Military	1757	28-Dec-1825	Duplicitous soldier and adventurer

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