Generals - Born On This Day. Add Your Own.

Born on this day the 27th of March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General G.P.J. Serlez in 1888
Soviet Lieutenant-General Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev in 1896
Soviet Major-General Grigorii Arkadevich Grigorian in 1898
US Major-General Miles Reber in 1902
US Brigadier-General Edward Reynolds in 1894
Yugoslav (NOVJ) Lieutenant-General Franc Rozman-Stane in 1911

 

Born on this day the 28th of March were:

Soviet Colonel-General of Artillery Leonid Iustinovich Kozhukhov in 1903
Soviet Major-General of Artillery Stepan Arsentevich Moshenin in 1899
Soviet Major-General Georgii Pavlovich Romanov in 1904
Soviet Colonel-General Leonid Mikhailovich Sandalov in 1900
Soviet Major-General Aleksandr Afanasevich Zhurba in 1898

 

Born on this day the 29th of March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General Jules-Joseph Pire in 1878
Japanese Lieutenant-General Sawada Shigeru in 1887
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Veterinary Services Iulii Avraamovich Lianda in 1892
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Coastal Service Nikolai Nikolaevich Matusevich in 1879
Soviet Major-General of Technical-Engineering Service Georgii Mikhailovich Orlov in 1903
Soviet Major-General Nikolai Petrovich Savchenko in 1896
US Brigadier-General Donald Allister Robinson in 1881
US Major-General Edward Fuller Witsell in 1891
US Brigadier-General Edwin Albert Zundel in 1893

 

Born on this day the 30th of March were:

Belgian Major-General A.C.J. Heirman in 1885
British Brigadier Jack Chalmers Wynne Cargill in 1910
Soviet Major-General Aleksei Nikitovich Asmolov in 1906
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Artillery Aleksei Pavlovich Baikov in 1901
Soviet Colonel-General of Tank Troops Aleksei Vasilevich Kurkin in 1901
Soviet Lieutenant-General Leonid Grigorevich Petrovskii in 1902
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Aleksei Fedorovich Popov in 1896
Soviet Lieutenant-General Sergii Vasilevich Roginskii in 1901
Soviet Colonel-General Vladimir Romanovich Vashkevich in 1900
Soviet Army General Aleksei Semenovich Zhadov in 1901
Soviet Lieutenant-General Aleksei Ivanovich Zygin in 1896
US Brigadier-General Percy Lee Sadler in 1893
US Lieutenant-General Walter Campbell Short in 1880
US Major-General Frederick Elwood Uhl in 1886

 

Born on this day 31st March :

Polish General Stanislaw Wladyslaw Maczek in 1892.

 

Some additional generals born on the 31st March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General A.M.E. Mersch in 1887
Soviet Major-General of Tank Troops Viktor Vasilevich Korotkov in 1901
Soviet Major-General Aleksei Ivanovich Nerchenko in 1901
Soviet Major-General of Technical-Engineering Service Georgii Iosifovich Pokrovskii in 1901

Born yesterday on the 1st of April were:

Romanian Lieutenant-General Florea Tenescu in 1884
Soviet Major-General Konstantin Fedorovich Baronov in 1890
Soviet Major-General Efim Vasilevich Bedin in 1904
Soviet Colonel-General Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin in 1904
US Brigadier-General Patrick Henry Timothy in 1897

Born on this day the 2nd of April were:

British Brigadier Claud Goulder in 1896
Soviet Lieutenant-General Nikolai Nikolaevich Biiazi in 1893
Soviet Major-General of Quartermaster Service Ivan Matveevich Karmanov in 1898

 

Born on this day the 3rd of April were:

Soviet Colenel-General of Tank Troops Viktor Timofeevich Obukhov in 1896
Yugoslav Major-General Jevrem J. Damjanović in 1880

 

Born on this day the 4th of April were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General Libert-Elie Thomas in 1889
Soviet Major-General of Technical Troops Sergei Vasilevich Baranov in 1897
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Semen Ivanovich Melnikov in 1902

 

Born on this day the 5th of April were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General Joseph-Ghislain Leroy in 1884
Soviet Lieutenant-General Iakov Sergeevich Dashevskii in 1902
Soviet Major-General Nikolai Nikolaevich Vashugin in 1900
Soviet Major-General Sergei Vladimorovich Vishnevskii in 1898

 

Born on this day the 6th of April were:

US Brigadier-General Carl Austin Russell in 1892

 

Born on this day the 7th of April were:

Chinese Lieutenant-General Kuan Lin-cheng in 1905
Soviet Major-General of Technical-Engineering Service Vladimir Karlovich Dmokhovskii in 1877
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Technical Service Nikolai Iustinovich Trubetskii in 1890
US Major-General Stanley Lonzo Scott in 1893

 

Born on this day the 8th of April were:

Soviet Major-General of Artillery Kazbek Drissovich Karsanov in 1910
Soviet Colonel-General of Artillery Gavriil Savelevich Zashikhin in 1898
US Brigadier-General John Harold Wilson in 1887

 

Born on this day the 9th of April were:

French Lieutenant-General Marie-Jules-Victor-Léon François in 1879
French Lieutenant-General Lucien Loizeau in 1879
Italian Marshal of Italy Ettore Bastico in 1876
Norwegian Major-General Kristian Kristiansen Laake in 1875
Soviet Major-General Ivan Smoilovich Grushetskii in 1904
US Brigadier-General Gordon Marshall Wells in 1894

Notice that the Norwegian CinC had his country invaded on his birthday.

 

Born on this day the 10th of April were:

French Lieutenant-General Robert-Marie-Eduardo Petiet in 1880
Soviet Major-General Vasilii Fedorovich Gladkov in 1898
Soviet Major-General Kantemir Aleksandrovich Tsalikov in 1908
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Artillery Vitalii Grigorevich Voskresenskii in 1909
Soviet Major-General Gavriil Stanislavovich Zdanovich in 1900

 

Born on this day the 11th of April were:

French General René-Jacques-Adolphe Prioux in 1879
Lithuanian Brigadier-General Vladis Karvelis in 1902
Soviet Lieutenant-General Ivan Ivanovich Varfolomeev in 1890
US Major-General Lowell Ward Rooks in 1893

 

Bringing us up to date.

Born on the 12th of April were

US Major-General George Jacob Richards in 1891

Born on the 13th of April were

Belgian Major-General Ernst E. Wiener in 1882
Soviet Major-General Aleksandr Vasilevski Aleksandrov in 1883

Born on the 14th of April were

Japanese Lieutenant Okada Tasuke in 1890
Soviet Army General Valentin Antonovich Penkovskii in 1904
Soviet Major-General Ivan Evdokimovich Turunov in 1898
Soviet Lieutenant-General Boris Aleksandrovich Vladimirov in 1905
US Brigadier-General John Wesley Niesz Schulz in 1885

Born on the 15th of April were

Soviet Army General Iosif Rodionovich Apanasenko in 1890
Soviet Major-General of Costal Service Nikolai Vasilevich Arsenev in 1901
Soviet Major-General Ermolai Grigorevich Kobridze in 1904

 

Born on this day the 16th of April were:

Belgian Major-General F.F.M. Van Rolleghem in 1881
Brazilian Marshal Estavão Leitão de Carvalho in 1881
Italian General Ruggero Santini in 1870
Japanese General Watanabe Jotaro in 1874
Soviet Marshal of Soviet Union Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin in 1894

 

First I have to say that I made a mistake yesterday. Due to a typo the date of birth on Tolbukhin was wrong. He wasn't born until the 16th of July. Sorry.

Hopefully there is no mistakes in these.

Born on the 17th April were:

Soviet Major-General Fedor Fomich Dubrovskii in 1901
Soviet Lieutenant-General Sergei Fedorovich Galadzhev in 1902
US Brigadier-General Foster Joseph Tate in 1896

 

Born on this day the 18th April were:

British Major-General Gilbert Savil Szlumper in 1884
Soviet Major-General of Engineering Troops Viktor Anisimovich Boliatko in 1906
Soviet Major-General of Artillery Mikhail Grigorevich Girshovich in 1904
US Brigadier-General John Moore Thompson in 1888

 

Born on the 19th of April were:

Belgian Major-General V.J.E. Sottiaux in 1890

Born on this day the 20th of April were:

Croatian General Josip Kopacin in 1898
Italian General Angelo Tua in 1874
Soviet Lieutenant-General Ivan Mikhailovich Afonin in 1904
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Medical Services Avetik Ignatevich Burnazian in 1906
Soviet Major-General of Medical Services Maks Semenovich Itskin in 1902
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Vladimir Stepanovich Tamruchi in 1892