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): Billy Childish • Billy Raimondi • Charles Michael Davis • Chris Poland • Joachim Hoffmann • John Roskelley • Louis VI of France • Marty Marion • Mubarak Hassan Shami • Peter II, Duke of Bourbon • Shirin M. Rai • Sophia Skou • Zhu De
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 • Ira Gershwin • Jimmy Doolittle • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Louis Bromfield • Maurice De Waele • Torsten Bergström