Edoardo Agnelli (2 January 1892 – 14 July 1935) was an

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entrepreneur and industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat.

Early life

Born in Verona, he was the son of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of Fiat, and married ''

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Virginia Bourbon del Monte ''Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino (Rome, 24 May 1899 – Pisa, 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli. Biography She was the daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince ...

(1899–1945), a daughter of Carlo del Monte, Prince di San Faustino and his Kentucky-born wife Jane Campbell.

Family

Agnelli had seven children: *

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(1920-2016, wife of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg, mother of

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) * Gianni (1921–2003) * Susanna (1922–2009), wife of Count Urbano Rattazzi *

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(born 1925) *

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(1927), wife of Count Brandolino Brandolini d'Adda *

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(1929–1965) *

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(1934–2004) Agnelli's oldest son, Gianni Agnelli, was head of Fiat from 1966 to 2003 and made the company the most important in Italy and one of the major car builders of Europe. Agnelli's daughter

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is the first woman to have been Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy. His grandson

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, Umberto's son, is chairman of

Juventus F.C. Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in 1 ...

since 2010.

Sports

Elected by the then ''assemblea di soci'' (membership assembly) as president of Italian club Juventus on 24 July 1923, Agnelli became one of the most important directors in the ''Old Ladys and Italian football history, and the one to whom credit can be given for transforming it from a club with local status to a national institution as long as having started a series of sporting successes that turned it the Italy's most winning club in latter 1950s during the administration of his son

. Under his management, which lasted until his death in 1935, the Turinese club established itself as a major force at national stage having won six Italian league championships —at the time the only top flight competition in the country—, including five in a row, being the first team to do so, a national record for the next 82 years as well as being placed among the best

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sides during the interwar period reaching during four consecutive seasons in first 1930s the Central European Cup semi-finals. His presidency is also renowned as the beginning of the almost uninterrupted society between the football club and the

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, the oldest and longest-lasting in Italian sports, making Juventus also one of the first professional sporting clubs '' ante litteram'' in the country.

Death

Agnelli died in a plane accident on July 14, 1935, when he was returning from

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in his father's seaplane, a Savoia-Marchetti SM.80 piloted by

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, en route to Genoa. The seaplane’s floats bumped a wandering tree trunk, causing the plane to overturn. Agnelli died after being struck on the back of the head by the propeller; Ferrarin was uninjured.

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