Mikhail Frunze

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist. Born to a Bessarabian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University and became an active member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Following the RSDLP ideological split, he sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction. He led the textile workers strike in Ivanovo during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was later sentenced to death before being commuted to life-long hard labour in Siberia. He escaped ten years later and took active part in the 1917 February Revolution in Minsk and the October Revolution in Moscow.

2 February 1885

Born on the same birth day (2 February): Adnan Oktar • Al McKay • Alix Le Clerc • Dale T. Mortensen • Dave Casper • Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony • Judith Quiney • Khushwant Singh • Konstantin von Neurath • Kristo Saage • Leszek Engelking • Phil Barney • Raúl Riganti • Émile Coste

Born in the same month (February 1885): Alban Berg • Aleksandras Stulginskis • Bess Truman • Chester W. Nimitz • Clarence H. Haring • Henri Laurens • Hugo Sperrle • James Scott (composer) • Julius Streicher • Princess Alice of Battenberg • Sacha Guitry • Sinclair Lewis • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz