Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (; September 20, 1897 – July 18, 1967) was a Brazilian military leader and politician.
He was President of Brazil, as a military dictator, after the 1964 coup d'etat. He left power in 1967 and was soon after killed when an aircraft he was travelling in was shot down by another Brazilian aircraft, allegedly by accident.
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