John B. Gordon

John Brown Gordon was an attorney, a slaveholding planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and a politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals."

6 February 1832

Born on the same birth day (6 February): Aida Rybalko • Alberto Pullicino • Alice Eve • Anne, Queen of Great Britain • Bill Staines • Bruno Stolorz • Chad Allen (baseball) • Charlie Hickcox • Crystal Reed • François Truffaut • Jamie Whincup • John Crank • Josef Frings • Leonid Gobyato • Rick Astley • Robert Maillart • S. Sreesanth • Valentin Yanin

Born in the same month (February 1832): Richard Henry Park