Symon Petliura

Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a part of the wider Russian Civil War.

10 May 1879

Born on the same birth day (10 May): Anne Robert Jacques Turgot • Bono • Carl Albert • Ettore Scola • George E. Smith • Humberto Suazo • Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper) • Marie-France Pisier • Missy Franklin • Tonita Peña • Wilhelm Killing

Born in the same month (May 1879): Bedřich Hrozný • Colin Blythe • Fergus McMaster • Frances Alda • Fred Englehardt • H. B. Reese • Hans Meerwein • James F. Byrnes • Jean Cras • Karl Bühler • Konstantin Ramul • Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook • Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor • Pierre Gilliard • Symon Petliura • Warwick Armstrong • Wesley Coe • William Stickney (golfer)