Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr was a French military commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire. He is regarded as Napoleon's finest commander in defensive warfare.

13 April 1764

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Arthur Fadden • Friedrich Graf von Wrangel • Howard Keel • John Robertson (Virginia politician) • John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough • Klaus Lehnertz • Lester Chambers • Mikhail Shufutinsky • Rae Johnstone • Sorcha Boru • Thomas Lawrence

Born in the same month (April 1764): John Abernethy (surgeon)