Wilhelm List

Wilhelm List was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who was convicted of war crimes by a US Army tribunal after the war. List commanded the 14th Army in the invasion of Poland and the 12th Army in the invasions of France, Yugoslavia and Greece. In 1941 he commanded the German forces in Southeast Europe responsible for the occupation of Greece and Yugoslavia. In July 1942 during Case Blue, the German summer offensive in Southern Russia, he was appointed commander of Army Group A, responsible for the main thrust towards the Caucasus and Baku.

14 May 1880

Born on the same birth day (14 May): Alice Barnham • Alvin Lucier • Antonio Annetto Caruana • Archie Alexander • Barbara Branden • Byron Dorgan • Charles Beyer • Ethel Johnson (wrestler) • Hal Borland • Henry McGee • Kirstjen Nielsen • Marcel Junod • Mark Zuckerberg • Matt Cardona • Ne Win • Robert Owen • Robert Zemeckis • Tim Roth • Tony Siragusa • William Emerson (mathematician)

Born in the same month (May 1880): Albert Richardson (architect) • Bill Horr • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner • Francis de Miomandre • Jean Alexandre Barré • Lincoln Ellsworth • Oswald Spengler • Pandurang Vaman Kane • Tudor Arghezi • W. Otto Miessner • Winifred Brunton