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1489 Francesco Ferruccio (or Ferrucci) (1489 â 3 August 1530) was an Italian captain from Florence who fought in the Italian Wars.
1717 Louis François de Bourbon, or Louis François I, Prince of Conti (13 August 1717 â 2 August 1776), was a French nobleman, who was the Prince of Conti from 1727 to his death, following his father. Louis François pursued a military career, and when the War of the Austrian Succession broke out in 1741, he accompanied the Duke of Belle-Isle to Bohemia. His services there led to his command of the army in Italy, where he distinguished himself by forcing the pass of Villafranca and winning the battle of Coni in 1744.
1764 Louis Baraguey d’Hilliers (13 August 1764 â 6 January 1813) was a French Army general who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was the father of Achille Baraguey d’Hilliers, a Marshal of France, and the father-in-law of General Damrémont, governor-general of Algeria.
1851 John Lincoln Clem (August 13, 1851 â May 13, 1937), famously known as Johnny Shiloh, was a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1915, having attained the rank of brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps; he was at that time the last veteran of the American Civil War still on duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, although others similarly aged and experienced such as Peter C. Hains and Albert A. Michelson rejoined the military after World War I started. By special act of Congress on August 29, 1916, he was promoted to major general one year after his retirement.
1890 Li Zongren or Li Tsung-jen (Chinese: æå®ä»; 13 August 1890 â 30 January 1969), was a prominent Guangxi warlord and Kuomintang (KMT) military commander during the Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. He served as vice-president and acting President of the Republic of China under the 1947 Constitution.
1958 Randall David Shughart (August 13, 1958 â October 3, 1993) was a United States Army Delta Force soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Mogadishu, during Operation Gothic Serpent in October 1993.
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