Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party. During World War II, Zhukov oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories, after which he was appointed the military governor of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany.
1 December 1896
Born on the same birth day (1 December): Agnė Čepelytė • Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov • Anders Holmertz • Billy Childish • Bob Fulton • Dan Mavraides • Franz Xaver Richter • Golden Brooks • James Wilson (English footballer) • Janelle Monáe • Karen Tumulty • Mat Kearney • Pablo Escobar • Ross Hannaford • Sebastián Piñera • Sophie Guillemin • Sun Yang • Sylvie Daigle • Tabarie Henry • Vesta Williams • Vsevolod Bobrov • Wally Lewis
Born in the same month (December 1896): Ann Nolan Clark • Anna Anderson • Betty Smith • Carl Ferdinand Cori • Carl Zuckmayer • Gerald Barry (British Army officer) • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Louis Bromfield • Maurice De Waele