Jacques Soustelle

Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.

3 February 1912

Born on the same birth day (3 February): Alvar Aalto • Antonio José de Sucre • Arne Beurling • Arsène Auguste • Billy Meier • E. P. Thompson • Elvana Gjata • Gordon Coates • Indrek Tarand • Isla Fisher • Joey Bishop • Johnny Cymbal • Kenneth Anger • Marek Židlický • Matthew Moy • Michael Cimino • Rhys Williams (footballer, born 2001) • Rougned Odor • William Cornelius Van Horne

Born in the same month (February 1912): Burton Lane • Byron Nelson • Christopher Hill (historian) • Ginette Leclerc • Lawrence Durrell • R. F. Delderfield • Roberta McCain • Tibor Sekelj