(1969) Bernardo Juan Borrell, rebel leader (1964) Leonid Illyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1974) Antonio Briones Montoto, guerilla (2012) Tamara “Tania” Bunke, revolutionary (1972) Richard Burton, film star (2001) Valery F. Bykovsky, cosmonaut (1963) Bonifacio Byrne, poet (1986) C Eduardo Caba, Bolivia composer and antara musician (1991) Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau revolutionary (1974) Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator and explorer (1992) Maria Magdalena Cabrales, aided Cuban revolution (1998) Francisco Cajigal de la Vega, governor of Cuba (1956) Cantinflas, Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter (1995) José Raúl Capablanca, world chess titlist (1951) Federico Capdevila, defense lawyer (1952) Enrique Caravia, artist (1951) Carlos III, king of Spain (1972) Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (1989) Francisco Carrillo, Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army (1955) Julián del Casal, poet and writer (1956) Luis G. Casanova, Cuban baseball player (2004) Luis de Las Casas, governor-general of Cuba (1945) Cascarita, Cuban singer (2004) Adolfo del Castillo Sánchez, general (1997) Ricardo Castillo, Guatemala composer (1991) Fidel Castro, president (1974) Raul Castro, Cuban president (2012) Catherine of Alexandria, saint (1971) Alejandro G. Caturia, Cuban composer (1966) Juan P. Cebreco, general of the army of liberation (1957) José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran writer (1989) Ignacio Cervantes, musician (1958) Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (2005) Ismael de Céspedes, director of the Bayamo telegraph (1949) Jose Maria Chacon y Calvo, historian (1992) Tomas Romay Chacón, physician (1958) Charlie Chaplin, actor and director (1995) Carlos Chavez, México guitar musician (1991) Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela (2014) Eduardo Chibas, Cuban politician (2001) Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (1997) Christopher, saint (1971) Camilo Cienfuegos, revolutionary hero (1960) Jacqueline Cochran, female aviator (2011) Nat King Cole, singer (2013) Emelina Collazo, sister of Guillermo Collazo (1976) Enrique Collazo, general (1950) Guillermo Collazo, painter and advocate for independence (1976) Boris Luis Santa Coloma, revolutionary (1983) Christopher Columbus, discover of America (1899, 1944) Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés Plácido, poet (1946) Juan Corzo, chess master (1988) Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics (1984) Adolfo Flor Crombet, general (1959) Jaime González Crocier, pilot (1955) Julio Cueva, Cuban trumpeter, composer and band leader (2004) Miguelito Cuni, singer (2007) Marie Curie, physical chemist (1994) Pierre Curie, chemist (1994) D Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan poet (1937) Charles Darwin, English naturalist and geologist (1996) James Dean, film star (2001) Luis A. Delgadillo, Nicaragua maracas musician (1991) Juan Delgado González, Cuban patriot (2013) Alberto