Ramón Mercader
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914
- Died
- 1978-10-18
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Cours moins vite, camarade, le vieux monde est devant toi!
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing
· 2012 · cited 14,592x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,012x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,477x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure
· 2016 · cited 5,381x
- Liver fibrosis
· 2005 · cited 4,533x
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Key facts
- Born
- Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río , ( 1913-02-07 ) 7 February 1913, Argentona , Catalonia , Spain
- Died
- 18 October 1978 (1978-10-18) (aged 65), Havana , Cuba
- Resting place
- Kuntsevo Cemetery , Moscow , Russia
- Other names
- Jacques Mornard Frank Jacson Ramón Ivánovich López Leon Jacome Leon Haikys (not to be confused with Leon Gaikis )
- Occupations
- Waiter militiaman soldier secret agent of the NKVD
- Criminal status
- Deceased
- Spouse
- Roquelia Mendoza Buenabad
- Parents
- Pablo Mercader Marina (father) Caridad del Río Hernández (mother)
- Relatives
- María Mercader (cousin)
- Conviction
- Murder
- Criminal penalty
- 20 years imprisonment
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Key dates
- Born
- 7 February 1913
- Died
- 18 October 1978
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ramón
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Place of death
- Havana
- Mother
- Caridad Mercader
- Sibling
- María Mercader
- Occupation
- communist
- Employer
- NKVD
Article
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río ( Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmom məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe, for which Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months.
In 1960, after release from Mexican imprisonment, Mercader was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal, and lived at different times in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia.
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1913 births1978 deaths20th-century Catalan people20th-century murderersAnti-revisionistsBurials at Kuntsevo CemeteryCommunist assassinsDeaths from lung cancer in CubaExiles of the Spanish Civil War in CubaExiles of the Spanish Civil War in FranceExiles of the Spanish Civil War in the Soviet UnionForeign Heroes of the Soviet Union