Louis Faidherbe

Louis Léon César Faidherbe was a French general and colonial administrator. He created the Senegalese Tirailleurs when he was governor of Senegal.

3 June 1818

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Alain Resnais • Beabadoobee • Charles Lecocq • Curtis Mayfield • Eddie Acuff • Georg von Békésy • Ignacio Ponseti • Imogen Poots • James Hutton • Jan Peerce • John Richard Reid • José Molina (baseball) • Ransom E. Olds • Tomáš Verner • Werner Arber

Born in the same month (June 1818): Alexander Bain (philosopher) • Angelo Secchi • Charles Gounod • Sophie of Württemberg