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1656 Claude, chevalier, then count de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 â 4 March 1733) was a French naval commander. In 1685â1688 he was on a diplomatic mission to Siam. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a coup d’état.
1765 Petros Mavromichalis (6 AUG 1765â19 JAN 1848), also known as Petrobey (Greek: ΠεÏÏÏμÏÎµÎ·Ï [peËtrobe.is]), was a Greek general, politician and the leader of the Maniot people during the first half of the 19th century. His family had a long history of revolts against the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of what is now Greece. His grandfather Georgios and his father Pierros were among the leaders of the Orlov Revolt.
1819 Samuel Perry “Powhatan” Carter (August 6, 1819 â May 26, 1891) was a United States naval officer who served in the Union Army as a brevet major general during the American Civil War and became a rear admiral in the postbellum United States Navy. He was the first and thus far only United States officer to have been commissioned both a general officer and a Naval flag officer.
1889 George Churchill Kenney (6 August 1889 â 9 August 1977) was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II. He is best known as the commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), a position he held between August 1942 and 1945.
1891 Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ (6 August 1891 â 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim,[1] was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. During the Second World War he led the 14th Army, the so-called “forgotten army” in the Burma campaign. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to be appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff. From 1953 to 1959 he was Governor-General of Australia.
1917 Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 â July 1, 1997) was an American actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. He rose to prominence for starring in several classic film noirs, and his acting is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. He briefly served in the United States Army during World War II, with service number 39 744 068, from April 12 – October 11, 1945, after he was drafted. He served as a medic at an induction department, checking recruits’ genitals for venereal disease (a “pecker checker”).
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