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): Bronisław Komorowski • Colette Boky • Darin Erstad • Joseph Kabila • Kazuhiro Yamaji • Nenad Zimonjić • Nictzin Dyalhis • Paul Samson • Philippa of England

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