Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander, aristocrat, and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during the period of World War II (1939–1945), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946). He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942.

4 June 1867

Born on the same birth day (4 June): Bar Refaeli • Beno Gutenberg • Dambudzo Marechera • Dionysis Chiotis • Emmanuel Eboué • Federico Erba • Izabella Scorupco • Modibo Keïta • Neil McNab • Oliver Nelson • Patience Strong • Shane Kimbrough

Born in the same month (June 1867): Charles Fabry • David T. Abercrombie • Flora Finch • Frank Lloyd Wright • Henry Lawson • John Robert Gregg • Leon Wachholz • Luigi Pirandello • Oscar Florianus Bluemner • René Seyssaud • Ruth Randall Edström • William Brede Kristensen