AP Photo Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born Aug. 13, 1926, on a sugar plantation in Birán in what is today Holguin province, He was the third of six children of Angel Castro y Argiz, a Spanish ...

Fidel Castro (full name: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz) was born on August 13, 1926, at the Manacas estate near the village of Biran in eastern Cuba. He was the third of seven children in the family ...