2013 Event Russian politician Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, registers as candidate for Mayor in Moscow's September's election 2012 Event Britain's MP Nadine Dorries is suspended from the Conservative Party after deciding to become the first politician to appear on a reality TV series 2011 Event Senior politician Norman Moore calls upon Western Australia to consider secession over carbon tax and Minerals Resource Rent Tax 2011 Event After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia 2010 Event Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off 2008 Death Norman Hogg, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997, dies after a long illness, at 70 2005 Death Robin Cook, Scottish Politician 2005 Death Gaylord Nelson, American Politician 2005 Death James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician 2005 Death Howell Heflin, American Politician 2005 Death Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician 2005 Death Shirley Chisholm, American Politician 2005 Death Bob Matsui, American Politician 2004 Death Robert Teeter, American Politician 2004 Death Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician 2003 Death Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping 2003 Death Ivan Allen, American Politician 2003 Death Bernard Dowiyogo, Politician 2003 Death Ron Ziegler, American Politician 2003 Death Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82 2002 Death Jesse Brown, American Politician 2002 Death Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician 2002 Death Barbara Castle, British Politician 2001 Death Lord Hailsham, British Politician 2001 Death Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician 2001 Death Harold Stassen, perennial presidential candidate/politician, resigned as governor of Minnesota to enlist for WWII, dies at 93 2001 Death John G. Schmitz, American Politician 2000 Death John Lindsay, American Politician 2000 Death Mel Carnahan, American Politician 2000 Death Malcolm Wilson, American Politician 2000 Death Carl Albert, politician, Speaker of the House from 1971-1977, dies at 91 1999 Death William Whitelaw, British Politician 1998 Death George Wallace, politician, infamous Alabama governor, dies at 79 1998 Death Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician 1998 Death David F. Powers, American Politician 1998 Death Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies 1997 Death Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92 1997 Death Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies 1996 Death Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89 1996 Death Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77 1996 Death Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89 1996 Death Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77 1996 Death Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 1996 Death Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87 1996 Death Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83 1996 Death Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67 1996 Death Ray Blanton, American Politician 1996 Death John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88 1996 Death Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57 1996 Death Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies 1996 Death Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85 1996 Death Harold E. Hughes, American Politician 1996 Death Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49 1996 Death Wang Li, politician, dies at 78 1996 Death David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86 1996 Death Terry Patchett, politician, dies at 56 1996 Death Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83 1996 Death Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 1996 Death Patrick McGeown, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981, dies at 40 from a heart attack 1996 Death Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55 1996 Death George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74 1996 Death Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90 1996 Death Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1996 Death Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician 1996 Death Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77 1996 Death Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75 1996 Death Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 1996 Death Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 1996 Death U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52 1996 Death Aruna Asaf Ali, politician, dies at 88 1996 Death David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73 1996 Death Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81 1996 Death David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69 1996 Death Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79 1996 Death John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70 1996 Death Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 1996 Death John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89 1996 Death Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82 1996 Death Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80 1996 Death Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91 1996 Death Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68 1996 Death David Whitton, politician, Labor party, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, dies at 44 1996 Death Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54 1996 Death Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician 1996 Death Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88 1996 Death Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85 1996 Death Daniel Chipenda, angolam politician, dies at 64 1996 Death Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78 1996 Death Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79 1996 Death Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76 1996 Death Pat Brown, politician, Democratic party, 32nd Governor of California, in Beverly Hills, California, at age 90 1996 Death Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman, dies at 84 1996 Death U San Yu, soldier/politician, dies at 77 1996 Death Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician, dies at 92 1996 Death Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85 1996 Death Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68 1996 Death John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83 1996 Death Michael Lynn Synar, politician, dies at 45 1996 Death Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1996 Death Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94 1995 Death Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85 1995 Death David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63 1995 Death David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97 1995 Death Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40 1995 Death Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52 1995 Death Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79 1995 Death Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73 1995 Death Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88 1995 Death Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64 1995 Death Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60 1995 Death Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59 1995 Death Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72 1995 Death Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81 1995 Death Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83 1995 Death George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88 1995 Death James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66 1995 Death Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies 1995 Death Christian Pineau, French politician, dies 1995 Death William Fulbright, U.S. politician, dies 1995 Death Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies 1994 Death David Dean Rusk, American Politician 1994 Death Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85 1994 Death Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52 1994 Death Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65 1994 Death Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated 1994 Death Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician 1994 Death Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician 1993 Death Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies 1992 Death Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered 1992 Death Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies 1992 Death Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies 1991 Death James Roosevelt, American Politician 1991 Death Richard Snelling, American Politician 1991 Death Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies 1991 Death Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies 1991 Death August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 1991 Death Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician 1990 Death G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies 1989 Death Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician 1989 Death Norris Cotton, American Politician 1988 Death John N. Mitchell, American Politician 1987 Death Alf Landon, American Politician 1986 Death Harold MacMillan, English Politician 1986 Death Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48 1986 Death Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73 1986 Death Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99 1986 Death Le Duan, Vietnamese politician, dies at 78 1986 Death Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75 1986 Death August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90 1986 Death Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 1985 Death Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician 1985 Death Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician 1984 Death William Allen Egan, American Politician 1983 Death Henry M. Jackson, American Politician 1983 Death Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67 1983 Death Tom McCall, American Politician 1982 Death Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60 1982 Death Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 1981 Death Brooks Hays, American Politician 1981 Death Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered 1981 Death Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician 1980 Death Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73 1980 Death John William McCormack, American Politician 1980 Death Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63 1980 Death Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies 1980 Death Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70 1980 Death George H. Fallon, American Politician 1980 Death Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62 1980 Death Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 1979 Death Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician 1979 Death Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83 1979 Death Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76 1979 Death Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 1979 Death Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72 1979 Death Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician 1979 Death Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51 1978 Death Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83 1978 Death Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59 1978 Death Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83 1978 Death Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1978 Death Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician 1977 Death Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78 1977 Death Tom C. Clark, American Politician 1977 Death Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered 1977 Death Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1977 Death Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75 1976 Death Richard J. Daley, American Politician 1975 Birthday Patrick McHenry, American Politician 1975 Death Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician 1974 Death Luther H. Hodges, American Politician 1974 Death Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 1973 Birthday Tim Ryan, American Politician 1973 Death Arthur Calwell, Australian Politician 1973 Death Jeanette Rankin, American Politician 1972 Death Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician 1972 Death Allen J. Ellender, American Politician 1972 Death James F. Byrnes, American Politician 1972 Death Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 1971 Death Lin Biao, Chinese Politician 1971 Birthday Bobby Jindal, American Politician 1971 Death Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46 1970 Birthday Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, American Politician 1970 Birthday Matt Blunt, born in Springfield, Missouri, politician, Republican, 54th Governor of Missouri, formerly an officer in the U.S. Navy 1970 Birthday Paul Ryan, American Politician 1969 Birthday Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch Politician 1969 Birthday Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Politician 1969 Birthday Cathy McMorris, American Politician 1969 Death Franz von Papen, German Politician 1969 Death John Bracken, Canadian Politician 1969 Birthday Joshua Micah Marshall, American Politician 1968 Death Bob Bartlett, American Politician 1968 Death Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 1968 Death Robert Kennedy, American Politician 1968 Death J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 1968 Death Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 1967 Death Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician 1967 Birthday Artur Davis, American Politician 1967 Birthday Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician 1967 Death Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60 1967 Death Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 1966 Birthday Dan Lipinski, American Politician 1966 Birthday Faure Gnassingbe, Togolese Politician 1966 Death Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64 1966 Death Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94 1965 Birthday Peter MacKay, Canadian Politician 1965 Death Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician 1965 Birthday Rick Larsen, American Politician 1965 Birthday Yahya Jammeh, born in Kanilai, Gambia, politician, President of Gambia, controlled the country as a result of a bloodless military coup, elected September 1996 1964 Death Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84 1964 Birthday John Sununu, born in Boston, Massachusetts, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 2003 - 2009, sits on Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP 1964 Birthday Anthony Weiner, American Politician 1964 Birthday Anthony D. Weiner, American Politician 1964 Birthday Boris Johnson, New York City, New York, politician, journalist, Mayor of London, formerly served as a Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames 1964 Death Nancy Astor, British Politician 1964 Death Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93 1963 Death Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62 1963 Birthday Sam Graves, American Politician 1963 Birthday Brad Henry, born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, politician, Democratic party, 26th Governor of Oklahoma 1963 Birthday Joe Scarborough, American Politician 1963 Birthday Michael K. Powell, American Politician 1963 Birthday Ron Kind, American Politician 1963 Death Artturi A Leinonen, Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74 1963 Birthday Mark Pryor, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, voted to confirm Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General 1962 Birthday Jeff Flake, American Politician 1962 Death Warren R. Austin, American Politician 1962 Death Dennis Chavez, American Politician 1962 Birthday Bob Schaffer, American Politician 1962 Birthday Chris Chocola, American Politician 1962 Birthday Tammy Baldwin, American Politician 1962 Birthday Lee Terry, American Politician 1962 Birthday Melissa Bean, American Politician 1961 Birthday Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani Politician 1961 Birthday Mary Bono, American Politician 1961 Birthday Mike Ross, American Politician 1961 Birthday Barack Obama, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, 44th President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Illinois 2005 - 2008 1961 Death Ma Ferguson, American Politician 1961 Birthday David Vitter, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, politician, Republican party, member, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1961 Death B. Carroll Reece, American Politician 1961 Birthday Gresham Barrett, American Politician 1961 Birthday Bill Shuster, American Politician 1961 Birthday John Thune, born in Murdo, South Dakota, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's At-Large district 1960 Birthday Heather Wilson, American Politician 1960 Birthday Timothy Pawlenty, American Politician 1960 Birthday Peter G. Fitzgerald, American Politician 1960 Birthday Blanche Lincoln, American Politician 1960 Death Edith Rogers, American Politician 1960 Death Aneurin Bevan, English Politician 1960 Birthday Adam Schiff, American Politician 1960 Birthday Mark Sanford, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, politician, Republican, 115th Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Air Force Reserve medical administration officer 1960 Birthday Charlie Dent, American Politician 1960 Birthday Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician 1960 Birthday Jim Matheson, American Politician 1960 Birthday Michael R. Turner, American Politician 1960 Birthday Loretta Sanchez, American Politician 1959 Birthday Donna Brazile, American Politician 1959 Birthday Rahm Emanuel, American Politician 1959 Birthday Charles Kennedy, British Politician 1959 Birthday Jo Bonner, American Politician 1959 Birthday Brian Higgins, American Politician 1959 Birthday Mark Kirk, American Politician 1959 Birthday Ben Chandler, American Politician 1959 Birthday Scott Garrett, American Politician 1959 Death Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71 1959 Birthday Mike Pence, American Politician 1959 Birthday Charles Hendry, born in West Sussex, England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden 1959 Birthday Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician 1959 Birthday Jennifer M. Granholm, American Politician 1959 Birthday Jennifer Granholm, American Politician 1958 Death Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74 1958 Birthday Geoff Davis, American Politician 1958 Birthday Jello Biafra, born in Boulder, Colorado, born Eric Reed Boucher, musician, politician, anarchist, leading figure of the Green Party, wrote music for 'Dead Kennedy's' 1958 Birthday Mac Thornberry, American Politician 1958 Birthday John Ensign, born in Roseville, California, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Nevada, former chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee 1958 Birthday Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1957 Birthday Hamid Karzai, born in Karz, Afghanistan, Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe, Sunni Muslim, politician, Independent Party, 12th President of Afghanistan 1957 Birthday Andrew Cuomo, American Politician 1957 Birthday Janet Napolitano, American Politician 1957 Birthday Robert. L. Ehrlich, American Politician 1957 Birthday Bob Ehrlich, American Politician 1957 Birthday J. C. Watts, born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, politician, U.S. House of Representatives, Oklahoma's 4th district, formerly a football player playing for the Canadian Football League 1957 Birthday Paul Kagame, born in Ruhango, Rwanda, politician, President of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly led the Rwandan Patriotic Front ending the Rwandan genocide 1957 Birthday James McGreevey, American Politician 1957 Birthday Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1957 Birthday Jerry Weller, American Politician 1957 Birthday Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1957 Birthday John Rowland, American Politician 1957 Birthday Lisa Murkowski, American Politician 1957 Birthday Mark Kennedy, born in Benson, Minnesota, politician, Republican, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 2nd district 1957 Birthday Katherine Harris, American Politician 1957 Birthday Nick Hawkins, born in the United Kingdom, politician, Conservative Party, lawyer, Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath 1992 - 2005 1957 Birthday John Hoeven, born in Bismarck, North Dakota, politician, Republican, 34th Governor of North Dakota, longest-serving Governor in the U.S. 1957 Birthday Greg Walden, American Politician 1956 Birthday Karen Hughes, American Politician 1956 Birthday Rod Blagojevich, American Politician 1956 Birthday Chaka Fattah, American Politician 1956 Birthday Jim Hodges, American Politician 1956 Birthday Grover Norquist, American Politician 1956 Birthday James Talent, born in Des Peres, Missouri, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Missouri, senior advisor to Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential campaign 1956 Event South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan 1956 Birthday Sebastian Coe, born in Chiswick, England, politician, Conservative party, former athlete, Olympic gold medalist 1980 and 1984, considered greatest middle distance runner ever 1956 Death Charles Richards, Canadian Politician 1956 Birthday Sam Brownback, born in Garnett, Kansas, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Kansas, U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas' 2nd district 1995 - 1996 1956 Birthday Patrick McGeown, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981 1956 Birthday Tom McClintock, American Politician 1956 Birthday Jan Peter Balkenende, born in Biezelinge, Netherlands, politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party 1956 Birthday Andrew Mitchell, born in Hampstead, London, politician, Conservative party, Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield 1956 Birthday Brian Baird, born in Chama, New Mexico, politician, Democratic party, U.S. House of Representatives from Washington's 3rd district 1955 Birthday Evan Bayh, born in Shirkieville, Indiana, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Indiana, 46th Governor of Indiana, implemented a historic $1.6 billion tax cut for Indiana 1955 Birthday Rob Portman, American Politician 1955 Death Otto Braun, German Politician 1955 Birthday Richard Burr, born in Charlottesville, Virginia, politician, Republican party, U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1955 Birthday Mary Landrieu, born in Arlington, Virginia, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from the State of Louisiana, considered among most conservative Democrats in the Senate 1955 Birthday Kevin Shelley, American Politician 1955 Birthday Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, South African Politician 1955 Birthday Brian Schweitzer, American Politician 1955 Birthday Mike Huckabee, born in Hope, Arkansas, politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas, Republican, candidate for President in 2008, host of 'Huckabee' television talk show 1955 Birthday John Sweeney, American Politician 1955 Birthday Pat Brown, born in San Francisco, California, politician, Democratic party, 32nd Governor of California 1955 Birthday Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician 1955 Birthday Lindsey Graham, American Politician 1955 Birthday George Radanovich, American Politician 1955 Birthday Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician 1955 Birthday Nigel Griffiths, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South 1955 Birthday Jon Porter, American Politician 1955 Birthday John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence 1955 Birthday David Wu, American Politician 1955 Birthday Svetozar Marovic, Yugoslavian Politician 1955 Birthday Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician 1955 Birthday Henry Bellingham, born in Cheltenham, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk 1955 Birthday Ken Salazar, born in Denver, Colorado, politician, Democrat, 50th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator from Colorado 2005 - 2009 1955 Birthday Jim Gerlach, American Politician 1955 Birthday John Baldacci, born in Bangor, Maine, politician, Democratic party, 73rd Governor of Maine 1955 Birthday David Pratt, Canadian Politician 1954 Birthday Mark Warner, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, politician, 69th Governor of Virginia 2002-2006, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1954 Birthday Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 1954 Birthday Mike Rounds, born in Huron, South Dakota, politician, Republican, 31st Governor of South Dakota, Member of the South Dakota Senate from the 24th district 1954 Birthday Brad Sherman, born in Los Angeles, California, politician, Democratic party, U.S. House of Representatives from California's 27th district 1954 Death Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67 1954 Birthday Murtaza Bhutto, born in Karachi Pakistan, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court 1954 Birthday Mark Foley, American Politician 1954 Birthday Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997 1954 Birthday Pauline Hanson, Australian Politician 1954 Birthday George Galloway, British Politician 1954 Birthday Michael Badnarik, American Politician 1954 Birthday Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela 1954 Birthday Betty McCollum, American Politician 1954 Birthday Bob Ney, American Politician 1954 Birthday Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009 1954 Birthday Jerry Moran, American Politician 1954 Birthday Candice S. Miller, American Politician 1954 Birthday Iain Duncan Smith, British Politician 1954 Birthday Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Politician 1954 Birthday Robert Menendez, American Politician 1953 Birthday Trevor Phillips, British Politician 1953 Birthday Tom Barrett, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, politician, Democratic party, 38th Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1953 Birthday Geoff Hoon, British Politician 1953 Birthday Peter Mandelson, British Politician 1953 Birthday Julian Brazier, born in Kent, England, British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury 1953 Birthday John Salazar, American Politician 1953 Birthday John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War 1953 Birthday Francis Maude, born in Abingdon, England, politician, Conservative party, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Horsham 1953 Birthday Baron Hill, American Politician 1953 Birthday John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1953 Birthday Linda Lingle, born in St. Louis, Missouri, politician, Republican, 6th Governor of Hawaii, chairman, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City 1953 Birthday Stephen Byers, born in Wolverhampton, England, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North 1953 Birthday Guy Verhofstadt, born in Dendermonde, Belgium, politician, liberal, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium 1999 - 2008, member, European Parliament 1953 Birthday Lincoln Chafee, American Politician 1953 Birthday Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, born in Cambridge, England, politician, landowner, Conservative party, Member of Parliament for Cotswold 1953 Death Robert M. La Follette, American Politician 1953 Birthday Derek Conway, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Derek Leslie Conway, politician, Conservative Party, awarded Territorial Decoration, Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup 1953 Birthday Jeb Bush, politician, born in Midland, Texas, 43rd Governor of Florida, younger brother of former President George W. Bush 1953 Birthday Andree van Es, born in Den Haag, Netherlands, politician, member, House of Representatives, GreenLeft and Pacifist Socialist Party, director-general of Government and Kingdom Relations 1953 Birthday Antonio Villaraigosa, American Politician 1953 Birthday Steve Chabot, American Politician 1952 Birthday Bill Kristol, American Politician 1952 Birthday Susan Collins, born in Caribou, Maine, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Maine, considered a bipartisan, moderate Republican 1952 Birthday John Lynch, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, politician, Democrat, 90th Governor of New Hampshire, second most popular Governor in the nation 1952 Birthday Ernie Fletcher, American Politician 1952 Death William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician 1952 Birthday Chris Cox, American Politician 1952 Birthday Ed Case, born in Hilo, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd district 1952 Birthday Bob Goodlatte, born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, politician, Republican party, U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 6th district 1952 Death Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies 1952 Birthday Philip E. Berger, American Politician 1952 Birthday Hun Sen, born in Peam Koh Sna, Cambodia, politician, Cambodian People's Party, Prime minister of Cambodia, governed since the 1979 overthrow of the Khmer Rouge 1952 Death August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58 1952 Birthday James H. Douglas, American Politician 1952 Birthday Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East 1952 Birthday Spencer Abraham, American Politician 1952 Birthday Gordon Smith, born in Pendleton, Oregon, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Oregon 1997 - 2009, President of the Oregon State Senate 1995 - 1997 1952 Birthday John Kasich, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, politician, Republican party, former U.S. Representative from Ohio's 12th district, 'Heartland with John Kasich' host 1952 Birthday Jim Costa, American Politician 1952 Birthday David Amess, born in London, England, British politician, Conservative, Member of Parliament for Southend West 1952 Birthday Bill Frist, born in Nashville, Tennessee, physician, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, U.S. Senate Majority Leader 2003 - 2007 1952 Birthday Randy Forbes, American Politician 1952 Birthday Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean Politician 1952 Birthday John Hickenlooper, American Politician 1952 Birthday John Cornyn, born in Houston, Texas, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Texas, Chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 111th U.S. Congress 1952 Birthday Andrew Smith, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, Andrew David Smith, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Oxford East 1952 Birthday Eveline Herfkens, born in The Hague, Netherlands, Dutch politician, member of the Dutch parliament from 1981 - 1990, served on the Council of the Labor Party 1952 Birthday Charles F. Bass, American Politician 1952 Birthday Charles Foster Bass, American Politician 1951 Birthday Traian Basescu, Romanian Politician 1951 Birthday Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician 1951 Birthday John Tierney, American Politician 1951 Birthday Bertie Ahern, Irish Politician 1951 Birthday Albert Wynn, American Politician 1951 Birthday Alexander Downer, Australian Politician 1951 Birthday Jim DeMint, born in Greenville, South Carolina, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, representative, 4th congressional district 1999 - 2005 1951 Birthday Anthony A. Williams, American Politician 1951 Birthday Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive 1951 Birthday Rob Bishop, American Politician 1951 Birthday John Redwood, British Politician 1951 Birthday Todd Tiahrt, American Politician 1951 Death Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73 1951 Birthday Jan Franssen, born in Hilversum, North Holland, politician, Dutch liberal political party, in 2006, named Queen's Commissioner in South Holland, previously served as city councilor, Nederhorst den Berg, President, House of Representatives 1982 - 1994, mayor of Zwolle, 1994 - 2000 1951 Birthday Michael Crapo, born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Idaho, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho's 2nd district 1993 - 1999 1951 Birthday Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey 1951 Birthday David Whitton, born in Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden 1951 Birthday John Battle, born in Bradford, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Leeds West, attended University of Leeds 1951 Birthday Lynne Jones, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, Labour party, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak 1951 Birthday Ian McCartney, born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, British politician, Member of Parliament for Makerfield 1951 Birthday Gwen Moore, American Politician 1951 Birthday Gordon Brown, born in Govan, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former television journalist 1951 Birthday Earl Howe, born in England, British politician, Conservative, front bench member, House of Lords, Health spokesman 1951 Birthday Gordon Prentice, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, serves as Member of Parliament for Pendle, joined Graham Stringer in calling for resignation of Gordon Brown in July, 2008 1951 Birthday Shelley Berkley, American Politician 1950 Birthday Thomas Vilsack, American Politician 1950 Birthday Charles Schumer, American Politician 1950 Birthday John Doolittle, American Politician 1950 Birthday Bill Owens, born in Fort Worth, Texas, politician, Republican party, 40th Governor of Colorado 1950 Birthday Chris Cannon, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, politician, Republican party, U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 3rd district 1950 Birthday Dave Freudenthal, American Politician 1950 Birthday Patty Murray, born in Bothell, Washington, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Washington, chairwoman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee 2001 - 2003 1950 Birthday Jo Ann Emerson, American Politician 1950 Birthday Mike Simpson, American Politician 1950 Birthday Michael K. Simpson, American Politician 1950 Birthday Ria Oomen-Ruijten, born in Echt, the Netherlands, politician, member of the European Parliament, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal 1950 Birthday Dick Spring, Irish Politician 1950 Birthday Dave Reichert, American Politician 1950 Birthday Stockwell Day, Canadian Politician 1950 Birthday Alan Keyes, born in Long Island, New York, politician, Republican party, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for international Organization Affairs 1950 Birthday Mark Udall, American Politician 1950 Birthday Jo Ann Davis, American Politician 1950 Birthday Mike Johanns, American Politician 1950 Birthday Tim Bishop, American Politician 1950 Birthday Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician 1950 Birthday Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1950 Birthday Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia 1950 Birthday Scott McCallum, American Politician 1950 Birthday Debbie Stabenow, American Politician 1950 Birthday Michael F. Easley, American Politician 1950 Birthday Rick Perry, born in Paint Creek, Texas, politician, Republican, 47th Governor of Texas, chairman Republican Governors Association, 2008 1950 Birthday Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System 1950 Birthday Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath 1950 Birthday Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival' 1950 Birthday Gary Locke, American Politician 1950 Birthday Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician 1950 Birthday Roy Blunt, American Politician 1949 Birthday Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008 1949 Birthday Jerry Costello, American Politician 1949 Birthday Joe Barton, American Politician 1949 Birthday Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South Africa Kwazulu politician 1949 Birthday Bob Holden, American Politician 1949 Birthday Norm Coleman, American Politician 1949 Birthday Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Politician 1949 Birthday Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai Politician 1949 Death Frank Murphy, American Politician 1949 Death Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon 1949 Birthday Steve King, American Politician 1949 Birthday Tom Cole, American Politician 1949 Birthday Walter Sweeney, born in Ireland, born Walter Edward Sweeney, politician, lawyer, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan 1949 Birthday Mitch Daniels, American Politician 1949 Birthday Greg Knight, British Politician 1949 Birthday Richard Neal, American Politician 1949 Birthday Frank Rich, U.S. politician 1949 Birthday Goran Persson, Swedish Politician 1948 Birthday David Davis, British Politician 1948 Birthday Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician 1948 Birthday Patricia Hewitt, British Politician 1948 Birthday Howard Dean, American Politician 1948 Birthday Max Burns, American Politician 1948 Birthday John Engler, American Politician 1948 Birthday Gerry Adams, Irish Politician 1948 Birthday Allyson Schwartz, American Politician 1948 Birthday John M. McHugh, American Politician 1948 Birthday Bob Beauprez, American Politician 1948 Death Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician 1948 Birthday Ted Poe, American Politician 1948 Death Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52 1948 Birthday Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Politician 1948 Birthday Robert Spink, born in Haworth, Worth Valley, Yorkshire, England, Robert Michael Spink, politician, Independence Party, former Conservative Party member, became Member of Parliament for Castle Point in June, 2001 1948 Birthday John B. Larson, American Politician 1948 Birthday John Larson, American Politician 1948 Birthday Tom Latham, American Politician 1948 Birthday Joaquin Almunia, Spanish Politician 1948 Birthday Duncan Hunter, American Politician 1948 Birthday Richard H. Baker, American Politician 1948 Birthday Tom Udall, American Politician 1948 Birthday Kathleen Sebelius, American Politician 1948 Birthday Dave Heineman, American Politician 1948 Birthday Paul Cellucci, American Politician 1948 Birthday Joschka Fischer, German Politician 1948 Death Jorge Elecier Gaitan, Colombian politician, murdered 1948 Birthday Nigel Jones, born in Chelenham, England, politician, Liberal Democrat, Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1992 - 2005 1948 Birthday Tom Coburn, American Politician 1948 Birthday Roy Barnes, American Politician 1948 Birthday Kenneth Blackwell, American Politician 1948 Birthday Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician 1948 Death Josephus Daniels, American Politician 1947 Birthday Zoe Lofgren, American Politician 1947 Birthday Tom Daschle, American Politician 1947 Birthday Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician, PvdA 2nd Chamber 1947 Birthday Lamar S. Smith, American Politician 1947 Birthday Bill Richardson, American Politician 1947 Birthday Haley Barbour, American Politician 1947 Birthday Vic Snyder, American Politician 1947 Death Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician 1947 Birthday Tessa Jowell, born in Marylebone, England, politician, Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood, Cabinet Minister 1947 Birthday John Kline, American Politician 1947 Birthday Joe Manchin, American Politician 1947 Birthday Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician 1947 Birthday Todd Akin, American Politician 1947 Birthday Jim Walsh, Irish Politician 1947 Birthday Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian Politician 1947 Birthday David Blunkett, British Politician 1947 Birthday Rosie Barnes, born in Nottingham, England, born Rosemary Susan Allen, politician, founding member of the Social Democratic Party, served the Council for Social Democracy, charity organizer 1947 Birthday Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Politician 1947 Birthday Andrew Card, American Politician 1947 Birthday John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1947 Birthday Tom DeLay, American Politician 1947 Birthday Christine Gregoire, American Politician 1947 Birthday Karen McCarthy, American Politician 1947 Birthday Mitt Romney, American Politician 1947 Birthday Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician 1947 Birthday John Dawkins, Australian Politician 1947 Birthday Lewis Moonie, born in Dundee, England, Baron Moonie, politician, life peer, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Kircaldy 1947 Birthday Olympia Snowe, American Politician 1947 Birthday Eliot Engel, American Politician 1947 Birthday Stephen Hadley, American Politician 1947 Death Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician 1947 Birthday Adam Ingram, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Stathaven, Lesmahagow 1947 Birthday Mark Dayton, American Politician 1947 Birthday Joe Baca, American Politician 1947 Birthday Robert Martin, American Politician 1947 Birthday Samuel Schmid, Swiss Politician 1947 Birthday Mike DeWine, American Politician 1947 Birthday Jon Corzine, American Politician 1946 Birthday Tim Johnson, American Politician 1946 Birthday Jeff Sessions, American Politician 1946 Birthday Sonny Perdue, American Politician 1946 Death Josiah Bailey, American Politician 1946 Birthday Rodney Alexander, American Politician 1946 Birthday Barbara Cubin, American Politician 1946 Birthday Richard J. Codey, American Politician 1946 Birthday Bobby Rush, American Politician 1946 Birthday Jodi Rell, American Politician 1946 Birthday Mel Martinez, American Politician 1946 Birthday Naveen Patnaik, Indian Politician 1946 Birthday Dennis Kucinich, American Politician 1946 Birthday Lloyd Doggett, American Politician 1946 Birthday Chuck Hagel, American Politician 1946 Death Gifford Pinchot, American Politician 1946 Birthday Christine Todd Whitman, American Politician 1946 Birthday Christie Todd Whitman, American Politician 1946 Birthday Tom Ridge, American Politician 1946 Birthday Ron Davies, Welsh Politician 1946 Birthday Rick Boucher, American Politician 1946 Death James Maxton, politician, dies 1946 Birthday Ed Markey, American Politician 1946 Birthday Dudley Fishburn, born in England, British politician, journalist, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, holds directorship for Altria Group 1946 Death Carter Glass, American Politician 1946 Birthday Archy Kirkwood, born in the United Kingdom, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire 1983 - 2005 1946 Birthday Paul Beresford, born in Levin, New Zealand, Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Mole Valley 1946 Death Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1946 Birthday Robin Cook, Scottish Politician 1946 Birthday Clare Short, born in Birmingham, England, politician, left wing, Secretary of State for Internal Development, supports legislating cannabis, critical of Israel 1946 Birthday Bernard Dowiyogo, Politician 1946 Birthday Keith Mans, born in England, politician, born Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, Member of Parliament for Wyre, educated at the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University 1946 Birthday Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service 1945 Birthday Tom Tancredo, American Politician 1945 Death John Amery, British Politician 1945 Birthday Dennis Moore, American Politician 1945 Birthday Jim Doyle, American Politician 1945 Birthday Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian Politician 1945 Birthday Tom McMillan, Canadian Politician 1945 Birthday Mel Watt, American Politician 1945 Birthday William Weld, American Politician 1945 Birthday Bill Weld, American Politician 1945 Birthday Larry Craig, American Politician 1945 Birthday Michael Martin, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East, Speaker of the House of Commons 1945 Birthday Jane Harman, American Politician 1945 Birthday Bill Luther, American Politician 1945 Birthday George Pataki, American Politician 1945 Birthday George E. Pataki, American Politician 1945 Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel 1945 Birthday Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician 1945 Birthday Allen Boyd, American Politician 1945 Birthday Richard Ottaway, born in Bristol, England, Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, politician, Conservative Party, attended Brittania Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Member of Parliament for Croydon South 1945 Birthday James P. Moran, American Politician 1945 Birthday Charlie Gonzalez, American Politician 1945 Death Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1945 Birthday Richard Armitage, American Politician 1945 Birthday Robert A. Brady, American Politician 1945 Death Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 1944 Birthday Bob Brown, Australian Politician 1944 Birthday Johnny Isakson, American Politician 1944 Birthday Jim Gibbons, American Politician 1944 Birthday Dick Durbin, American Politician 1944 Birthday Emanuel Cleaver, American Politician 1944 Birthday David Trimble, Irish Politician 1944 Death Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 1944 Birthday George Nethercutt, American Politician 1944 Death Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician 1944 Birthday John S. Tanner, American Politician 1944 Birthday Ander Crenshaw, American Politician 1944 Birthday Collin C. Peterson, American Politician 1944 Birthday Alan Howarth, born in Britain, born Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, politician, Member of Parliament 1983 - 2005, member of the Privy Council 1944 Birthday Alan Horwarth, born in Britain, politician, Baron Howarth of Newport, Member of Parliament for Statford-on-Avon and Newport East, educated at King's College, Cambridge, Conservative Party 1944 Birthday Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1944 Birthday Christopher Dodd, American Politician 1944 Birthday Olga Maitland, born in England, born Lady Helen Olga Hay, known as Lady Olga Maitland, politician, Conservative Party 1944 Birthday Chris Patten, British Politician 1944 Birthday Susan Davis, American Politician 1944 Birthday Jesse Brown, American Politician 1944 Birthday Said Musa, born in San Ignacio, Belize, lawyer, politician, People's United Party, Fifth Prime Minister of Belize 1944 Birthday Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour 1944 Birthday Michael Oxley, American Politician 1944 Birthday Michael Enzi, American Politician 1944 Birthday James Cran, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness 1997 - 2005 1944 Death Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies 1944 Death Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1944 Birthday Edward G. Rendell, American Politician 1944 Birthday Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician 1944 Birthday Ed Rendell, American Politician 1943 Birthday Tarja Halonen, born in Kallio, Finland, politician, lawyer, Social Democratic Party, first female President of Finland 1943 Birthday John F. Kerry, American Politician 1943 Death Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46 1943 Birthday Wayne Allard, American Politician 1943 Birthday Jerry Kleczka, American Politician 1943 Birthday Phil Bredesen, American Politician 1943 Birthday Saxby Chambliss, American Politician 1943 Birthday Robert M. Gates, American Politician 1943 Birthday Lincoln Davis, American Politician 1943 Birthday Michael D. Barnes, American Politician 1943 Birthday Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000 1943 Birthday Keith Hampson, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Ripon 1943 Birthday Ronald Campbell, born in Tynemouth, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley 1943 Birthday Bill Bradley, American Politician 1943 Birthday Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician, PvdA, 2nd Chamber 1943 Birthday Kay Hutchison, American Politician 1943 Birthday Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Politician 1943 Birthday Virginia Foxx, American Politician 1943 Birthday Jim Sensenbrenner, American Politician 1943 Birthday Elizabeth Andrews, British Politician 1943 Birthday Bob Livingston, American Politician 1943 Birthday Tony Banks, English politician, Lab 1943 Birthday Tom McNally, born in England, Thomas McNally, Baron McNally, politician, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, life peer, Baron of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire 1943 Death Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 1943 Birthday Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust 1943 Birthday Rob Simmons, American Politician 1943 Birthday Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great 1943 Birthday John Mica, American Politician 1943 Birthday Jim Saxton, American Politician 1943 Birthday Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician 1943 Birthday Kay Granger, American Politician 1943 Birthday Fernando Flores, Chilean Politician 1942 Birthday Thomas Menino, American Politician 1942 Birthday Gray Davis, American Politician 1942 Birthday Donald L. Carcieri, American Politician 1942 Birthday Dick Murphy, American Politician 1942 Birthday Kathleen Blanco, American Politician 1942 Birthday Anna Eshoo, American Politician 1942 Birthday Gary Ackerman, American Politician 1942 Birthday Jack Carroll, Canadian Politician 1942 Birthday John Spratt, American Politician 1942 Birthday James A. Leach, American Politician 1942 Birthday Bill Nelson, American Politician 1942 Birthday Tessa Blackstone, born in England, Baroness Blackstone, politician, university administrator, Labor Party, life peer, House of Lords, Baroness Blackstone of Stoke Newington in Greater London 1942 Birthday Michael Stephen, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Shoreham from 1992 until 1997 1942 Birthday Nathan Deal, American Politician 1942 Birthday Max Cleland, American Politician 1942 Birthday Frank Field, born in Edmonton, London, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Birkhead, served as Minister of Welfare Reform 1942 Birthday Javier Solana, Spanish Politician 1942 Birthday Preston Manning, Canadian Politician 1942 Birthday Byron Dorgan, American Politician 1942 Birthday John Kyl, American Politician 1942 Birthday Sidney K. Barthelmy, U.S. politician 1942 Birthday Michael Bloomberg, American Politician 1942 Birthday Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician 1942 Birthday Bob Taft, American Politician 1942 Birthday Dennis Hastert, American Politician 1941 Birthday Bob Matsui, American Politician 1941 Birthday Bernie Sanders, American Politician 1941 Birthday Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa 1941 Birthday Danny K. Davis, American Politician 1941 Birthday Bob Etheridge, American Politician 1941 Birthday Charlie Norwood, born in Georgia, Army Captain, politician, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia 1941 Birthday Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician, VVD, minister of Traffic 1941 Birthday Bill Delahunt, American Politician 1941 Birthday Sam Farr, American Politician 1941 Birthday Michael M. Honda, American Politician 1941 Birthday Mike Honda, American Politician 1941 Birthday Ben Nelson, American Politician 1941 Birthday Howard Berman, American Politician 1941 Death Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 1941 Birthday Don Sherwood, American Politician 1941 Birthday Paddy Ashdown, British Politician 1941 Birthday John Butterfill, born in Kingston upon Thames, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament Bournemouth West 1941 Birthday Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress, Zelda-Dobie Gillis 1941 Birthday Doc Hastings, American Politician 1941 Birthday Dick Gephardt, American Politician 1940 Birthday Norm Dicks, American Politician 1940 Birthday Ted Kulongoski, American Politician 1940 Birthday Joseph J. DioGuardi, Politician 1940 Birthday Nong Duc Manh, born in Na Ri District, Bac Kan province, Vietnam, Vietnamese Politician 1940 Birthday Ted Olson, American Politician 1940 Birthday William S. Cohen, American Politician 1940 Birthday Ruben Hinojosa, American Politician 1940 Birthday David E. Price, American Politician 1940 Birthday John W. Carlin, born in Salina, Kansas, politician, 40th Governor of Kansas 1979 - 1987, Archivist of the United States 1995 - 2005 1940 Death Paul Hirsch, German Politician 1940 Birthday Pat Schroeder, American Politician 1940 Birthday Terry Patchett, politician 1940 Birthday Dick Armey, American Politician 1940 Birthday Lamar Alexander, American Politician 1940 Birthday William Cash, born in London, England, born William Nigel Paul Cash, politician, Member of Parliament for Stafford, Member of Parliament for Stone 1940 Birthday Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War 1940 Death John Gilmour, Scottish Politician 1940 Birthday Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician, PvdA 1940 Birthday Frank Dobson, British Politician 1940 Birthday Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives 1939 Birthday Tom Hayden, born in Detroit, Michigan, California politician 1939 Birthday Harry Reid, American Politician 1939 Birthday Tom Harkin, American Politician 1939 Birthday Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese Politician 1939 Birthday Mike Castle, American Politician 1939 Birthday Chuck Robb, American Politician 1939 Birthday Barry George Barrington Porter, politician 1939 Birthday Phil Gallie, born in Portsmouth, England, born Philip Roy Gallie, politician, Conservative Party, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Member of Parliament for Ayr 1939 Birthday Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire 1939 Birthday Ron Ziegler, American Politician 1939 Birthday Malcolm Thornton, born in England, politician, Conservative party, Member of Parliament for Liverpool 1979 - 1983, Member of Parliament for Crosby 1983 - 1997 1939 Birthday Charles Lyell, born in England, born Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, politician, Conservative Party, whip, House of Lords, Peerage of the United Kingdom 1939 Birthday Kit Bond, American Politician 1939 Birthday Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary 1939 Birthday Frank R. Wolf, American Politician 1938 Birthday Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician, Crossfire 1938 Birthday David Obey, American Politician 1938 Birthday Andrei Lukanov, politician 1938 Birthday Sam Nunn, American Politician 1938 Birthday Art Agnos, U.S., politician 1938 Birthday Paul Martin, Canadian Politician 1938 Birthday Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005 1938 Birthday Stuart Bell, born in County Durham, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough 1938 Birthday Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler, S&L scandal 1938 Birthday David Steel, British Politician 1938 Birthday Norman Hogg, born in Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997 1938 Birthday Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University 1938 Birthday Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO, VARA Radio/TV 1938 Birthday Betico Croes, Arubian politician, Status Aparte 1938 Birthday Arthur Scargill, British Politician 1937 Birthday Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician 1937 Death Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician 1937 Birthday Michael Jeffery, Australian Politician 1937 Birthday Peter Lloyd, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Fareham 1979 - 2001 1937 Birthday Stephen Lewis, Canadian Politician 1937 Birthday Alice Mahon, born in Halifax, England, trade unionist, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Halifax 1987 - 2005 1937 Birthday Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician 1937 Birthday Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician, CDA, 2nd Chamber 1937 Birthday Peter Pike, born in England, born Peter Leslie Pike, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Burnley 1937 Birthday Jay Rockefeller, American Politician 1937 Birthday Jim Hunt, born in Wilson, North Carolina, politician, Democratic Party, first and only four-term Governor of North Carolina 1976 - 2001 1937 Birthday Terry Dicks, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington 1983 - 1997 1937 Birthday Jerry Wiggin, born in Worcestershire, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare 1937 Birthday Christopher Tugendhat, born in England, born Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat of Widdington in the County of Essex, politician, Conservative Party, journalist, author, businessman 1937 Birthday John Hume, Irish Politician 1936 Birthday Jim McDermott, American Politician 1936 Birthday William L. Jenkins, American Politician 1936 Birthday Jim Sasser, American Politician 1936 Birthday Sue Kelly, American Politician 1936 Death Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies 1936 Birthday Kenny Guinn, American Politician 1936 Birthday Elizabeth Dole, American Politician 1936 Birthday George Voinovich, American Politician 1936 Birthday Major R. Owens, American Politician 1936 Birthday Major Owens, American Politician 1936 Birthday Marion Barry, American Politician 1936 Birthday Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician 1935 Birthday Paul O'Neill, American Politician 1935 Birthday Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician 1935 Birthday Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman 1935 Birthday Tom Atkins, American Politician 1935 Death Huey Long, American Politician 1935 Birthday Richard Lamm, American Politician 1935 Birthday Ron Paul, American Politician 1935 Birthday Derek Anthony Enright, politician 1935 Birthday John Swan, raised in Deepdale, Bermuda, politician, United Bermuda Party, Premier of Bermuda 1982 - 1985 1935 Birthday Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber 1935 Birthday Tom Pendry, born in England, Baron Pendry, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970 - 2001 1935 Birthday Denis J. Worrall, South African politician/leader, DP 1935 Birthday Thomas H. Kean, American Politician 1935 Birthday Frank Jordan, American Politician 1935 Birthday Michel Aoun, born in Haret Hreik, Lebanon, Lebanese soldier and politician 1935 Birthday Paul Flynn, born in Cardiff, Wales, born Paul Philip Flynn, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Newport West 1935 Birthday Conrad Burns, American Politician 1935 Birthday Pete du Pont, American Politician 1935 Birthday Ruth Ann Minner, American Politician 1934 Birthday James Inhofe, American Politician 1934 Birthday Kenneth Baker, English Politician 1934 Birthday Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975 1934 Birthday Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician 1934 Birthday Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician 1934 Birthday Donald M. Payne, American Politician 1934 Birthday Carl Levin, American Politician 1934 Birthday Michael Mates, born in England, born Michael John Mates, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for East Hampshire 1934 Birthday James Jeffords, American Politician 1934 Birthday Jim Jeffords, American Politician 1934 Birthday Richard Shelby, American Politician 1934 Birthday Keith Speed, born in Evesham, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Meriden in Warwickshire 1968 - 1974 1934 Birthday Roger Nicholas Edwards, born in England, born Roger Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell, Baron Crickhowell, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, Secretary of State for Wales 1934 Birthday George Ryan, American Politician 1934 Birthday Mel Carnahan, American Politician 1934 Birthday Nick Clooney, American Politician 1934 Birthday Leonard Boswell, American Politician 1934 Birthday Piet Dankert, Dutch politician, PvdA 1934 Birthday Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982 1933 Birthday Alex Campbell, Canadian Politician 1933 Birthday Diane Watson, American Politician 1933 Birthday Michael Dukakis, American Politician 1933 Birthday Robert Bennett, American Politician 1933 Birthday Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician 1933 Birthday Chuck Grassley, American Politician 1933 Birthday Charles Grassley, American Politician 1933 Birthday Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush 1933 Birthday Ken Lucas, American Politician 1933 Birthday George J. Mitchell, American Politician 1933 Birthday Rod Paige, American Politician 1933 Birthday Tim Rathbone, born in England, born John Rankin Rathbone, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Lewes from 1974 to 1997 1933 Birthday Frank H. Murkowski, American Politician 1933 Birthday Frank Murkowski, American Politician 1933 Birthday Myrlie Evers-Williams, politician and commissioner LA Board of Public works 1933 Birthday Paul Sarbanes, American Politician 1933 Birthday Bill Hayden, Australian Politician 1932 Birthday David Lincoln Lightbown, politician 1932 Birthday Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician 1932 Birthday Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese Politician 1932 Death John Sharp Williams, American Politician 1932 Death Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1932 Birthday Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1932 Birthday Eric Varley, born in England, born Eric Varley, Baron Varley of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire, politician, Labor Party, Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament for Chesterfield 1932 Birthday Dick Thornburgh, American Politician 1932 Birthday Donald Rumsfeld, politician 1932 Birthday Timothy Renton, born in England, born Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, politician, Conservative Party, Minister of State, Margaret Thatcher's Chief Whip, Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex 1932 Death William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies 1932 Death Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1932 Birthday Pete Domenici, American Politician 1932 Birthday Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1932 Birthday Zell Miller, American Politician 1932 Birthday Edward Kennedy, American Politician 1932 Death Samuel Rutherford, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. 1931 Birthday Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine 1931 Birthday Pete Stark, American Politician 1931 Birthday Sandy Levin, American Politician 1931 Birthday Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines 1931 Birthday Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician, VVD 1931 Birthday Bert Lance, American Politician 1931 Birthday James Q. Wilson, American Politician 1931 Birthday Norman Tebbit, born in Southgate, England, politician, Member of Parliament 1931 Death Timothy Healy, Irish Politician 1930 Birthday Meg Greenfield, U.S. politician 1930 Birthday Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician 1930 Birthday Phil Crane, American Politician 1930 Birthday Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation 1930 Birthday Raymond J. Donovan, American Politician 1930 Birthday Gerald B. H. Solomon, Politician 1930 Birthday John G. Schmitz, American Politician 1930 Birthday Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1930 Birthday Harvey Milk, American Politician 1930 Birthday Bryan Magee, born in Hoxton, England, broadcaster, author, politician, presented current affairs television show This Week, made philosophy accessible with his 'Men of Ideas' television series 1930 Birthday Ray Blanton, American Politician 1930 Birthday Arlen Spector, American Politician 1930 Birthday Roger Sims, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1974 - 1997 1929 Birthday Louise Slaughter, American Politician 1929 Birthday John Conyers, American Politician 1929 Birthday Jeremy Thorpe, British Politician 1929 Birthday Amedee Turner, born in England, Amedee Edward Turner, politician, barrister, Conservative Party, Member of the European Parliament, patent lawyer 1929 Birthday Tom Foley, American Politician 1929 Birthday Bill Walker, born in Dundee, Scotland, politician, deputy chairman, Scottish Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire 1929 Birthday Richard Long, born in London, England, Richard Gerard Long, 4th Viscount Long, politician, Conservative Party 1929 Birthday Bill O'Brien, British Politician 1928 Birthday Eric Lubbock, born in England, born Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, 4th Baron Avebury, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Orpington 1928 Birthday Reubin Askew, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Reubin O'Donovan Askew, politician, Democratic Party, Governor of Florida 1971 - 1979, U.S. Trade Representative 1979 - 1981 1928 Birthday Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician 1928 Birthday Peter Griffiths, born in London, born Peter Harry Steve Griffiths, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Smethwick 1928 Death Chauncey Depew, American Politician 1928 Birthday Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician 1928 Birthday Elizabeth Joan Smith, Canadian Politician 1927 Birthday Romeo LeBlanc, Canadian Politician 1927 Birthday Ellis Hillman, politician 1927 Birthday Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician 1927 Birthday William J. Perry, American Politician 1927 Birthday Kenneth Eastham, born in England, politician, Labor Party Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley 1979 - 1997 1927 Birthday Edwin W. Edwards, Politician 1927 Birthday Edwin Edwards, American Politician 1927 Birthday Richard Body, born in England, Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, politician, Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959 1927 Birthday Joop F. Wolff, Dutch editor, Truth, Dutch politician, CPN 1927 Birthday Robert Mosbacher, U.S. politician 1927 Birthday David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician 1927 Birthday John Warner, American Politician 1927 Birthday Richard Snelling, American Politician 1926 Death Joseph McKenna, American Politician 1926 Death Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician 1926 Birthday H. R. Haldeman, American Politician 1926 Death Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies 1926 Death Eugene V. Debs, American Politician 1926 Birthday John Dingell, American Politician 1926 Birthday Ian Gilmour, English Politician 1926 Birthday Geoffrey Finsberg, politician 1926 Birthday Cranley Onslow, born in England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking, called for lower middle class taxes, life peer as Baron Onslow of Working in Surrey County 1926 Birthday Roscoe Bartlett, American Politician 1926 Birthday Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician, Wyoming house of Reps 1926 Birthday John "Jack" Layden, local politician 1925 Birthday Robert Kennedy, American Politician 1925 Birthday Howard H. Baker, Jr., American Politician 1925 Birthday Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker 1925 Birthday Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician, Never on a Sunday 1925 Birthday Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East 1925 Death Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician 1925 Birthday Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician 1925 Birthday Rhodes Boyson, born in Lancashire, England, Sir Rhodes Boyson, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Brent North 1925 Birthday John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1925 Birthday Charles Henry Plumb, born in England, Charles Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, Baron Plumb of Coleshill, County of Warwickshire, Conservative Party, politician, leading figure, National Farmers Union 1925 Birthday John D Erlichman, Politician, Nixon aide, Watergate 1925 Birthday John Ehrlichman, American Politician 1925 Birthday Sef Imkamp, Dutch politician 1925 Birthday Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician, KVP/CDA 1925 Birthday Fred Catherwood, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, politician, writer, Conservative member of the European Parliament, president of Evangelical Alliance 1925 Birthday Peter Lane, born in England, Baron Lane of Horsell, Lord Land of Horsell, politician, businessman, Conservative Party, served in Royal Navy, life peer, House of Lords 1924 Birthday Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician 1924 Birthday Willem Drees, economist/Dutch politician, DS'70 1924 Birthday Edward Koch, Politician 1924 Birthday Ed Koch, American Politician 1924 Birthday Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician 1924 Birthday Daniel Akaka, American Politician 1924 Birthday Daniel Inouye, American Politician 1924 Birthday Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician 1924 Birthday Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician 1924 Death Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80 1924 Birthday Frank Lautenberg, American Politician 1923 Death Maurice Barres, French Politician 1923 Birthday Ted Stevens, American Politician 1923 Birthday J T Mellema, Boer politician, CHU 1923 Birthday Michio Watanabe, politician 1923 Birthday Bob Dole, American Politician 1923 Birthday Robert J. Dole, American Politician 1923 Death Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67 1923 Death Knute Nelson, American Politician 1923 Birthday James L. Buckley, American Politician 1922 Birthday Neil Blaney, politician 1922 Birthday John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II 1922 Birthday David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician 1922 Birthday David Nicolson, businessman/politician 1922 Death Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40 1922 Birthday Clark MacGregor, politician, involved in Watergate 1922 Death Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63 1922 Birthday Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, Volksunie 1922 Birthday Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician 1922 Birthday Harold E. Hughes, American Politician 1922 Death Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician 1922 Birthday Fritz Hollings, American Politician 1921 Death P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 1921 Death P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician 1921 Birthday George Henderson, priest/politician 1921 Birthday John V. Lindsay, Politician 1921 Birthday John Lindsay, American Politician 1921 Birthday G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician, CDA 1921 Birthday Howell Heflin, American Politician 1921 Birthday Robert Croften Brown, politician 1921 Birthday Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician 1921 Birthday Ian Percival, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Southport, served in World War II in North Africa and Burma, earned rank of Major 1920 Birthday Georg Leber, German politician, SPD 1920 Birthday Walter Clegg, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, served as Comptroller of the Household, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Member of Parliament for Wyre, Member of Parliament for North Fylde 1920 Birthday Richard von Weizsaecker, German Politician 1920 Death Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73 1919 Birthday Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician 1919 Birthday Kiichi Miyazawa, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, politician, 78th Japanese Prime Minister 1919 Death Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1919 Birthday George C. Wallace, American Politician 1919 Birthday Edward Leadbitter, politician 1919 Birthday Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980 1918 Death George H. White, American Politician 1918 Birthday Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician 1918 Birthday Kurt Waldheim, born in Austria, Austrian diplomat, politician, Secretary-General of the U.N., ninth President of Austria 1918 Birthday Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician 1918 Birthday James Cameron Tudor, politician 1918 Birthday Jigal Allon, Israeli politician 1918 Birthday Malcolm Shepherd, born in England, born Malcolm Newton Shepherd, Lord Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd of Spalding, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Lords 1918 Birthday John Berger, politician 1918 Birthday Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1918 Birthday Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician 1918 Birthday William Whitelaw, British Politician 1918 Death Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73 1918 Birthday Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker 1918 Birthday Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician 1917 Death Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 1917 Birthday Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament 1917 Birthday Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister 1917 Birthday Denis Healey, English politician 1917 Birthday John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League 1917 Birthday William Scranton, American Politician 1917 Death William Henry Moody, American Politician 1917 Birthday Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician 1917 Birthday Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1917 Birthday Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician 1917 Birthday Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR, Indian film star, politician 1917 Death Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 1916 Birthday Francis Cockfield, born in Horsham, England, born Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield of Dover in the County of Kent, politician, Conservative Party, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1916 Birthday Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician 1916 Birthday Phyllis Stedman, politician 1916 Birthday Gaylord Nelson, American Politician 1916 Birthday Cornelie Coposu, politician 1916 Birthday Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician 1916 Birthday Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician, PvdA 1916 Death Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 1915 Death Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 1915 Death Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75 1915 Birthday Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician 1915 Birthday Harry van Doorn, Henri W, CRM minister/Dutch politician, KVP/PPR 1915 Death Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician 1915 Birthday Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1915 Death Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician 1915 Birthday Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician 1915 Birthday John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host 1915 Death Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies 1915 Birthday Derk Roemers, Dutch politician, Soc-Dem 1915 Birthday John D. Profumo, born in England, politician 1915 Birthday Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician 1914 Birthday William Allen Egan, American Politician 1914 Birthday James Scarlett, born in England, born James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, Lord Abinger, politician, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy Lieutenant for Essex 1914 Birthday Shin Kanemaru, politician 1914 Birthday Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician 1914 Birthday Arthur Holt, politician 1914 Birthday Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician 1914 Birthday Herman Siles Zuazo, politician 1914 Birthday Malcolm Wilson, American Politician 1914 Birthday Edqard John Gurney, politician 1913 Birthday George Smathers, born in New Jersey, American lawyer, politician, U.S. Senator from Florida 1913 Birthday James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician 1913 Birthday Hans Filbinger, German politician, CDU 1913 Birthday John N. Mitchell, American Politician 1913 Death Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies 1913 Birthday Michael Foot, born Plymouth, England, born Michael Mackintosh Foot, writer, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition 1913 Birthday Fritz Erler, German politician, SDP 1913 Birthday Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician 1913 Birthday Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician 1913 Death Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies 1913 Birthday Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician 1913 Birthday Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician 1913 Birthday Tom McCall, American Politician 1913 Death August Bebel, German Politician 1913 Birthday Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest 1913 Death Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49 1912 Birthday Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician 1912 Death John P. Jones, American Politician 1912 Birthday Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, soldier/politician 1912 Birthday David F. Powers, American Politician 1912 Death Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81 1912 Birthday John Adrian Hope, politician and businessman 1912 Birthday Cuthbert Alport, born in England, born Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Lord Alport, Baron Alport, politician, Conservative Party, Cabinet Minister, life peer, Deputy Lieutenant for Essex 1912 Birthday John Amery, British Politician 1912 Death Edward Blake, Canadian Politician 1912 Birthday Ian Orr-Ewing, born in England, Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Hendon North, Baronet of Hendon 1911 Death Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies 1911 Birthday Peter Muir Doig, politician 1911 Birthday Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician 1911 Death Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1911 Birthday Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician 1911 Birthday Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician, 1964- 1911 Birthday Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician, New Class 1911 Death George Dorsey, American Politician 1911 Birthday Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician 1911 Birthday J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, MP 1911 Birthday Kukrit Pramoj, politician 1911 Birthday Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman 1911 Birthday Ivan Allen, American Politician 1911 Birthday Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian 1910 Birthday Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician 1910 Birthday Barbara Castle, British Politician 1910 Birthday Gaston Deferre, French politician 1910 Birthday J A Manusama, Moluccan politician 1910 Birthday David Gilroy Bevan, politician 1910 Birthday Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician, CHU 1910 Birthday Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman 1910 Birthday Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician 1909 Birthday Kwame Nkrumah, Politician 1909 Birthday Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician 1909 Birthday Scott McClellan, American Politician 1909 Birthday Matt Gonzalez, American Politician 1909 Birthday Silvan Shalom, Israeli Politician 1909 Birthday Terry McAuliffe, American Politician 1909 Birthday Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician 1909 Birthday Roger Stone, American Politician 1909 Birthday Mack McLarty, American Politician 1909 Birthday Shirley Franklin, American Politician 1909 Birthday Willie Herenton, American Politician 1909 Birthday Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician 1909 Birthday David Dean Rusk, American Politician 1908 Birthday Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin 1908 Birthday John Reginald Bevins, politician 1908 Birthday Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician 1908 Birthday Aruna Asaf Ali, politician 1908 Birthday Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician 1908 Birthday Le Duan, Vietnamese politician 1908 Birthday David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer and politician 1907 Birthday Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician 1907 Birthday James Roosevelt, American Politician 1907 Birthday Lin Piau, Chinese politician 1907 Birthday Lin Biao, Chinese Politician 1907 Birthday Lord Hailsham, British Politician 1907 Birthday Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party 1907 Birthday Ernesto Geisel, politician 1907 Death A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies 1907 Birthday Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician, Frame 1907 Birthday Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician 1907 Birthday Margaret Peggy McCrorie Herbison, politician 1907 Birthday Helmuth J. von Moltke, German politician, July 20th plot 1907 Birthday Harm van Riel, Dutch politician, Dutch Liberal Party 1907 Birthday Arthur George Bottomley, politician 1907 Birthday Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician 1906 Birthday Leonid I. Brezhnev, Politician 1906 Birthday John Morrison, politician/landowner 1906 Birthday Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician 1906 Birthday Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician, CDU 1906 Birthday Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD 1905 Birthday Julius Silverman, politician 1905 Death John Hay, U.S. politician, dies 1905 Death John H. Reagan, American Politician 1904 Birthday Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician 1904 Death Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies 1904 Birthday Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician 1904 Death Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies 1904 Birthday Bob Bartlett, American Politician 1904 Death Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician 1904 Birthday Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician, SDAP, resistance fighter 1904 Death John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 1903 Birthday Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist 1903 Birthday Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician 1903 Birthday Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician 1903 Birthday Basil Nield, judge/politician 1903 Birthday Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1903 Death Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58 1902 Death Thomas Reed, American Politician 1902 Birthday George H. Fallon, American Politician 1902 Birthday Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician 1902 Birthday Richard J. Daley, American Politician 1902 Birthday Megan Lloyd George, English politician 1902 Birthday Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician 1901 Birthday Walter Hallstein, West German politician, CDU, Hallstein doctrine 1901 Birthday Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, SPD 1901 Death Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64 1901 Birthday Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician 1901 Death Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76 1900 Birthday Norris Cotton, American Politician 1900 Birthday Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician, Bread and Wine 1900 Birthday Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician 1899 Birthday Georges Bidault, French Politician 1899 Birthday Tom C. Clark, American Politician 1899 Birthday Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth 1899 Death Richard Parks Bland, American Politician 1899 Birthday Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician 1898 Birthday Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician 1898 Birthday Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist 1898 Birthday Brooks Hays, American Politician 1898 Birthday August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder, CVP 1898 Birthday Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician, The Spark 1898 Birthday Luther H. Hodges, American Politician 1897 Birthday Aneurin Bevan, English Politician 1897 Birthday Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat/politician 1897 Birthday Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer, Fascism is War! 1897 Birthday Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician 1897 Death Heinrich von Stephan, U.K. politician, dies 1897 Birthday Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist 1897 Birthday Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician 1896 Birthday Arthur Calwell, Australian Politician 1896 Birthday Trygve Lie, Norwegian Politician 1896 Birthday Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician 1896 Birthday Andrei A. Zjdanov, Russian politician, against kosmopolitism 1895 Birthday August De Boodt, Belgian politician 1895 Birthday Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician 1895 Birthday John G. Diefenbaker, Politician 1895 Birthday Earl Long, American Politician 1895 Birthday Prescott Bush, American Politician 1895 Birthday Robert M. La Follette, American Politician 1894 Death Joseph E. Brown, American Politician 1894 Birthday Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician 1894 Death Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician 1894 Birthday Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman 1894 Death Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65 1894 Birthday Harold MacMillan, English Politician 1893 Birthday August Balthazar, Belgian politician 1893 Birthday Huey Long, American Politician 1892 Birthday Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician 1891 Birthday John William McCormack, American Politician 1891 Birthday Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician 1891 Death Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician 1891 Birthday Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician, SDAP/AJC/PvdA 1890 Birthday Allen J. Ellender, American Politician 1890 Birthday Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law 1890 Birthday Frank Murphy, American Politician 1889 Birthday B. Carroll Reece, American Politician 1889 Birthday Robert A. Taft, American Politician 1889 Death John Bright, British Politician 1888 Birthday Artturi A. Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer, Kati, politician 1888 Birthday Dennis Chavez, American Politician 1887 Birthday Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician 1887 Birthday Alf Landon, American Politician 1887 Birthday Friedrich Lubke, German politician 1887 Birthday Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician 1887 Birthday Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician 1887 Birthday Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German/US pianist/politician, NSDAP 1886 Birthday L G Kortenhorst, politician 1886 Birthday Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Russian revolutionary politician 1886 Death Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies 1886 Death Horatio Seymour, American Politician 1885 Death Martin R Delany, politician and black nationalist, dies at 72 1884 Death Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician 1884 Birthday Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter 1884 Death Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59 1884 Birthday Frederik Gerretson, Geerten Gossaert, Dutch poet/politician 1884 Birthday Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army 1883 Birthday John Bracken, Canadian Politician 1882 Birthday Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician 1882 Death Louis Blanc, French Politician 1882 Birthday Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher 1882 Birthday Sam Rayburn, American Politician 1881 Birthday Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician 1881 Death Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 1881 Birthday Edith Rogers, American Politician 1881 Birthday Enver Pasja, Turkish general and politician 1881 Death Fernando Wood, American Politician 1880 Death George W. Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies 1880 Birthday Jeanette Rankin, American Politician 1880 Death Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80 1879 Birthday Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician 1879 Birthday Franz von Papen, German Politician 1879 Birthday Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize 1879 Birthday Charles Richards, Canadian Politician 1879 Birthday Nancy Astor, British Politician 1879 Death Isaac Butt, Irish Politician 1879 Birthday James F. Byrnes, American Politician 1878 Birthday Karl Buresch, Austria politician 1878 Birthday Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1878 Death Boss Tweed, born in New York City, New York, American Politician, Democratic leader of Tammany Hall 1878 Death Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician 1878 Birthday Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate 1878 Birthday Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician 1877 Birthday Warren R. Austin, American Politician 1876 Birthday Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician 1876 Birthday John Gilmour, Scottish Politician 1876 Death Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74 1875 Death John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71 1875 Birthday Ma Ferguson, American Politician 1875 Death Duff Green, American Politician 1874 Death Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies 1874 Death Gerrit Smith, American Politician 1874 Birthday Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician 1874 Birthday Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician, social-democratic 1873 Birthday Alfred E. Smith, American Politician 1873 Birthday Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician 1873 Birthday Josiah Bailey, American Politician 1873 Death Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician 1873 Death Salmon P. Chase, American Politician 1873 Death Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician 1873 Death Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician 1872 Death Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72 1872 Birthday Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician 1872 Death Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 1872 Death Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82 1872 Birthday Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician, ARP 1872 Birthday Otto Braun, German Politician 1871 Birthday Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1870 Birthday Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, East Africa 1870 Birthday Samuel Rutherford, born in Culloden, Georgia, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms 1869 Birthday Jan R Slotemaker de Bruine, Dutch clergyman/politician, CHU 1868 Birthday Paul Hirsch, German Politician 1868 Birthday Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem 1865 Birthday Gifford Pinchot, American Politician 1864 Death Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39 1864 Birthday Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and politician 1863 Birthday Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician 1862 Birthday Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1862 Birthday Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S., politician/author, Progressive 1862 Birthday William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician 1862 Birthday Maurice Barres, French Politician 1862 Death Thornton F Brodhead, U.S. lawyer/politician/Brigadier-General, dies at 40 1862 Birthday Josephus Daniels, American Politician 1861 Death Stephen Douglas, American Politician 1860 Death Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1860 Death Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 1860 Death James Wilson, politician 1860 Death Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63 1859 Death Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies 1859 Death Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician 1859 Birthday Willem J. Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat 1858 Death James Gadsden, American Politician 1858 Birthday Wolfgang Kapp, German politician, Kapp Putsch 1920 1858 Birthday Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician 1858 Birthday Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician, SDAP 1858 Birthday Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927 1858 Birthday Carter Glass, American Politician 1857 Death John Wilson Croker, politician 1856 Birthday Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician 1856 Death John Eaton, American Politician 1856 Birthday Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest and politician, Volkseeuw 1855 Birthday Eugene V. Debs, American Politician 1855 Birthday Timothy Healy, Irish Politician 1854 Birthday Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician 1854 Birthday Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician 1854 Birthday John Sharp Williams, American Politician 1854 Birthday Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician 1853 Birthday William Henry Moody, American Politician 1853 Birthday Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician 1852 Birthday George H. White, American Politician 1852 Death John McKinley, American Politician 1852 Birthday Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician 1851 Birthday Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920 1851 Death Philip Hone, American Politician 1851 Death Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 1850 Death Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician 1849 Birthday Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck 1849 Birthday Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician, Garman og Worse 1849 Birthday Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father 1848 Death William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1847 Birthday Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician 1847 Death Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician 1847 Birthday Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician 1846 Birthday Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician 1846 Birthday Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician 1846 Birthday Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper 1846 Birthday Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1845 Death Henry M baron the Kock, officer/politician, dies at 65 1845 Birthday Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician 1844 Birthday Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1844 Death Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65 1844 Birthday Hermanus J. A. M. Schaepman, clergyman and Dutch politician 1843 Birthday Joseph McKenna, American Politician 1843 Death Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68 1843 Birthday Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician 1843 Birthday [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician 1843 Birthday Knute Nelson, American Politician 1842 Birthday Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician 1842 Birthday George Dorsey, American Politician 1841 Birthday Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician 1840 Death Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82 1840 Birthday August Bebel, German Politician 1840 Birthday Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard 1839 Birthday Thomas Reed, American Politician 1839 Death Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies 1839 Birthday Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician 1838 Birthday John Milton Hay, politician, Union 1837 Birthday Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician 1837 Birthday Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician 1837 Birthday P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician 1837 Death Joseph Anderson, American Politician 1836 Birthday Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner 1836 Birthday Joseph Cannon, American Politician 1836 Birthday Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist and politician 1836 Birthday Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician 1835 Death Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73 1835 Birthday Richard Parks Bland, American Politician 1834 Birthday Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902 1834 Birthday Chauncey Depew, American Politician 1834 Birthday Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician 1833 Birthday Edward Blake, Canadian Politician 1833 Birthday Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois 1833 Death William Wilberforce, English Politician 1833 Death Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 1832 Birthday Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor 1832 Birthday Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1830 Birthday Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope 1830 Death H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 1829 Birthday John P. Jones, American Politician 1828 Birthday Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician 1828 Birthday Johannes von Miquel, German politician 1826 Death Luther Martin, American Politician 1826 Death Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist, dies 1825 Birthday Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner 1824 Birthday Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician 1824 Birthday Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician 1823 Death Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 1822 Death Nathaniel Smith, American Politician 1821 Birthday Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist, cell pathology 1821 Birthday Joseph E. Brown, American Politician 1821 Death Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62 1820 Birthday Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer, Phantasterne 1819 Death William Samuel Johnson, American Politician 1819 Death John Langdon, American Politician 1819 Death Hugh Williamson, American Politician 1818 Death Philip Francis, English Politician 1818 Birthday John H. Reagan, American Politician 1818 Death Daniel Smith, American Politician 1818 Death John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61 1817 Birthday Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates 1816 Death James McHenry, American Politician 1815 Death Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64 1814 Death Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71 1814 Death Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 1813 Birthday Zachariah Chandler, U.S., merchant/politician, found Republican Party 1813 Birthday Isaac Butt, Irish Politician 1813 Birthday Stephen Douglas, American Politician 1812 Birthday Fernando Wood, American Politician 1811 Birthday Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz 1811 Birthday John Bright, British Politician 1811 Birthday Louis Blanc, French Politician 1811 Birthday Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician 1811 Birthday Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician 1811 Birthday George Caleb Bingham, U.S., politician/painter, Country Election 1810 Birthday Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Argentina politician/writer 1810 Death Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61 1809 Death Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 1809 Birthday Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician 1809 Birthday George W. Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician 1809 Birthday Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist 1808 Birthday Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer 1808 Birthday Salmon P. Chase, American Politician 1808 Birthday Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician 1807 Birthday Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, born in Paris, France, French politician and revolutionary 1806 Death Charles James Fox, English Politician 1805 Birthday Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer 1804 Birthday Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician 1804 Birthday Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician, RC 1802 Birthday Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician 1801 Death Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies 1800 Birthday Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician 1800 Birthday Willem A. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician 1799 Birthday Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician 1798 Death James Wilson, American Politician 1797 Birthday Gerrit Smith, American Politician 1796 Birthday Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician 1794 Birthday Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician 1794 Death Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 1794 Death Richard Henry Lee, American Politician 1794 Death Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies 1793 Death Lord George Gordon, British Politician 1793 Death Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1792 Death Henry Laurens, American Politician 1791 Birthday Duff Green, American Politician 1790 Birthday John Eaton, American Politician 1788 Birthday James Gadsden, American Politician 1788 Birthday Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician 1787 Birthday Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician 1786 Birthday Davy Crockett, U.S., frontiersman/adventurer/politician, Alamo 1786 Birthday D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician 1784 Birthday Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher 1782 Birthday Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian 1782 Birthday Daniel Webster, Salisbury, New Hampshire, orator, politician, and lawyer 1780 Birthday Philip Hone, American Politician 1780 Birthday Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician 1780 Death Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1780 Birthday John McKinley, American Politician 1779 Birthday Henry M Baron de Kock, Dutch officer/politician 1779 Birthday William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1778 Birthday Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician 1778 Birthday Francis Horner, politician 1777 Birthday Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, U.S. politician 1776 Birthday Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician 1775 Birthday Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1774 Birthday Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician 1774 Death Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68 1773 Birthday Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician 1770 Birthday Francis Burdett, British politician 1768 Birthday Maurits C van Hall, Dutch ruler of Heicop and Boeicop, lawyer/politician 1767 Birthday H Benjamin Constant, de Rebeque, French politician/writer 1765 Death Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies 1765 Birthday Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist 1762 Birthday Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist 1762 Birthday Nathaniel Smith, American Politician 1760 Death Charles Lawrence, British Politician 1759 Birthday Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician 1759 Birthday William Wilberforce, English Politician 1759 Birthday Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician 1759 Birthday Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot 1758 Birthday Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician 1757 Birthday Joseph Anderson, American Politician 1757 Birthday Herman H Vitringa, politician, National Meetings 1757 Birthday John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician 1756 Birthday Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician 1755 Birthday Georges Couthon, French politician 1754 Death Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51 1753 Birthday James McHenry, American Politician 1753 Birthday Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist 1753 Birthday Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1751 Birthday Lord George Gordon, British Politician 1751 Birthday Cornelis de Gijselaar, Dutch politician/patriot 1750 Birthday Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist 1749 Birthday Charles James Fox, English Politician 1748 Birthday Daniel Smith, American Politician 1748 Birthday Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot 1748 Birthday Luther Martin, American Politician 1743 Birthday Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician 1741 Birthday John Langdon, American Politician 1740 Birthday Philip Francis, English Politician 1737 Birthday John Hancock, American Politician 1735 Birthday Hugh Williamson, American Politician 1732 Death Francis Atterbury, English Politician 1732 Birthday Richard Henry Lee, American Politician 1731 Death Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75 1730 Birthday Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician 1728 Death John Friend, physician/politician, dies 1727 Birthday William Samuel Johnson, American Politician 1725 Death Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 1724 Birthday Henry Laurens, American Politician 1724 Death Peter Schuyler, English Politician 1711 Birthday Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1709 Birthday Charles Lawrence, British Politician 1705 Birthday Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician, Chiswick 1685 Death Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55 1683 Death Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded 1663 Birthday Francis Atterbury, English Politician 1661 Death Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 1658 Death Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Baroque prose writer, wrote 'El heroe' or 'The Hero', 'El politico', or 'The Politician', 'El discreto', 'The Discreet One', exiled for 'Criticon', or 'Faultfinder' 1657 Birthday Peter Schuyler, English Politician 1656 Birthday Adolf H. van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat and politician 1654 Birthday Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat 1643 Death John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 1639 Death Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62 1634 Death Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies 1631 Death Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies 1623 Death Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70 1604 Death Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, literature/politician, dies at 58 1601 Birthday Baltasar Gracian, born in Belmonte, Aragon, Spain, Spanish Baroque prose writer, wrote 'El heroe' or 'The Hero', 'El politico', or 'The Politician', 'El discreto', 'The Discreet One', exiled for 'Criticon', or 'Faultfinder' 1598 Death Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 1590 Death Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies 1581 Death Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52 1577 Birthday Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician 1576 Death Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 1571 Birthday Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician 1569 Death Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50 1559 Death Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 1552 Birthday Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician, defended common law 1545 Birthday Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, Dutch politician/poet 1528 Birthday Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician 1523 Birthday Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician 1518 Birthday Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician 1507 Death Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31 1469 Birthday Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer, Prince 640 Death Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58 413 Death Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
