Su Yu

Su Yu, Courtesy name Yu (裕) was a Chinese military commander, a general of the People's Liberation Army. He was considered by Mao Zedong to be among the best commanders of the PLA, only next to Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng. Su Yu fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War. He commanded the East China Field Army during the Chinese Civil War. His most notable accomplishments were the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Huaihai, the Yangtze River crossing, and the capture of Shanghai.

10 August 1907

Born on the same birth day (10 August): Ad van Luyn • Aleksandr Stoletov • Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles • Anatoly Sobchak • Archie Bradley (baseball) • Ferenc Toldy • George Cooper (British Army officer) • Gilles de Roberval • Henri Nestlé • Justin Theroux • Luca Marini • Pat Pitney • Reinout Scholte • Rosanna Arquette • Toad the Wet Sprocket • Tom Laughlin • Vicente Guerrero

Born in the same month (August 1907): Albert Kotin • Augustus Hawkins • Basil Spence • Benjamin Sheares • Bertha Parker Pallan • Bruno Giacometti • Eric Shipton • Ernesto Geisel • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi • Jimmy Steele (Irish republican) • John Mauchly • Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) • Mary Hamman • P. Jeevanandham • Ted à Beckett • William Shawn