Juan López Sanchez, born on this day in 1900, was a Spanish construction worker, anarchist, member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and one of the founders of the Federación Sindicalista Libertaria. During the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) he was Minister of Commerce under Francisco Largo Caballero.

After the fascists won the civil war, Sanchez spent several years in exile before returning to Spain where he lived without persecution and participated in the "vertical" trade union movement authorized by the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.