Josep Miquel i Baró

Catalan politician and revolutionary. He was a member of the Republican Nationalist Center. A corpulent man with a singular character, during the Tragic Week he was the head of the rebellion in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu de Palomar on July 28, which had a more republican component and with fewer pillages and fires. He was well known for wearing a thick red beard and always dressing in a longer working-class blouse than normal. He directed the assault on the barracks of the Civil Guard to obtain weapons, and the fire of the rectory with its valuables, and part of the parish church. For these reasons he was sentenced to death by a military court and shot on August 17, 1909, the first of those shot in the repression. He died as a fervent Catholic.

He was one of five (the others being the anarchists Francesc Ferrer Guàrdia, Antoni Malet Pujol, Eugenio del Hoyo and Ramon Clemente García) tried and executed in the aftermath of the Setmana Tràgica.  Shot at 07:00 in the Santa Amàlia battery of the Montjuïc fortress in Barcelona.