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2008 Norman Hogg, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997, dies after a long illness, at 70

2005 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician

2005 Gaylord Nelson, American Politician

2005 James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician

2005 Howell Heflin, American Politician

2005 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician

2005 Shirley Chisholm, American Politician

2005 Bob Matsui, American Politician

2004 Robert Teeter, American Politician

2004 Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician

2003 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies at 46

2003 Ivan Allen, American Politician

2003 Bernard Dowiyogo, Politician

2003 Ron Ziegler, American Politician

2003 Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82

2002 Jesse Brown, American Politician

2002 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician

2002 Barbara Castle, British Politician

2001 Lord Hailsham, British Politician

2001 Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician

2001 Harold Stassen, perennial presidential candidate/politician, resigned as governor of Minnesota to enlist for WWII, dies at 93

2001 John G. Schmitz, American Politician

2000 John Lindsay, American Politician

2000 Mel Carnahan, American Politician

2000 Malcolm Wilson, American Politician

2000 Carl Albert, politician, Speaker of the House from 1971-1977, dies at 91

1999 William Whitelaw, British Politician

1998 George Wallace, politician, infamous Alabama governor, dies at 79

1998 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician

1998 David F. Powers, American Politician

1998 Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92

1997 Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies

1996 Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89

1996 Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77

1996 Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89

1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77

1996 Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83

1996 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87

1996 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83

1996 Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67

1996 Ray Blanton, American Politician

1996 John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88

1996 Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57

1996 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies

1996 Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85

1996 Harold E. Hughes, American Politician

1996 Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49

1996 Wang Li, politician, dies at 78

1996 David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86

1996 Terry Patchett, politician, dies at 56

1996 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83

1996 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70

1996 Patrick McGeown, politician, dies at 40

1996 Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55

1996 George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74

1996 Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90

1996 Murtaza Bhutto, politician, dies at 42

1996 Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician

1996 Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77

1996 Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75

1996 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77

1996 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72

1996 U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52

1996 Aruna Asaf Ali, politician, dies at 88

1996 David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73

1996 Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81

1996 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69

1996 Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79

1996 John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70

1996 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76

1996 John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89

1996 Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82

1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80

1996 Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91

1996 Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68

1996 Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54

1996 Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician

1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88

1996 Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85

1996 Daniel Chipenda, angolam politician, dies at 64

1996 Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78

1996 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79

1996 Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76

1996 Edmund G "Pat" Brown, politician, dies at 90

1996 Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman, dies at 84

1996 U San Yu, soldier/politician, dies at 77

1996 Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician, dies at 92

1996 Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85

1996 Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68

1996 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83

1996 Michael Lynn Synar, politician, dies at 45

1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65

1996 Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94

1995 Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85

1995 David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63

1995 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97

1995 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40

1995 Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52

1995 Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79

1995 Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73

1995 Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88

1995 Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64

1995 Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60

1995 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59

1995 Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72

1995 Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81

1995 Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83

1995 George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88

1995 James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66

1995 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies

1995 Christian Pineau, French politician, dies

1995 William Fulbright, U.S. politician, dies

1995 Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies

1994 David Dean Rusk, American Politician

1994 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85

1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52

1994 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65

1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated

1994 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician

1994 Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

1993 Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies

1992 Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered

1992 Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies

1992 Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies

1991 James Roosevelt, American Politician

1991 Richard Snelling, American Politician

1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies

1991 Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies

1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92

1991 Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician

1990 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies

1989 Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician

1989 Norris Cotton, American Politician

1988 John N. Mitchell, American Politician

1987 Alf Landon, American Politician

1986 Harold MacMillan, English Politician

1986 Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48

1986 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73

1986 Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99

1986 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician, dies at 78

1986 Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75

1986 August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90

1986 Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64

1985 Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician

1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician

1984 William Allen Egan, American Politician

1983 Henry M. Jackson, American Politician

1983 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67

1983 Tom McCall, American Politician

1982 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60

1982 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80

1981 Brooks Hays, American Politician

1981 Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered

1981 Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician

1980 Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73

1980 John William McCormack, American Politician

1980 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63

1980 Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies

1980 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70

1980 George H. Fallon, American Politician

1980 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62

1980 Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88

1979 Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician

1979 Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83

1979 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76

1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69

1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72

1979 Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician

1979 Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51

1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83

1978 Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59

1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83

1978 Reginald Maudling, British Politician

1978 Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician

1977 Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78

1977 Tom C. Clark, American Politician

1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered

1977 Anthony Crosland, British Politician

1977 Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75

1976 Richard J. Daley, American Politician

1975 Patrick McHenry, American Politician

1975 Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician

1974 Luther H. Hodges, American Politician

1974 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67

1973 Tim Ryan, American Politician

1973 Arthur Calwell, Australian Politician

1973 Jeanette Rankin, American Politician

1972 Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician

1972 Allen J. Ellender, American Politician

1972 James F. Byrnes, American Politician

1972 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73

1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician

1971 Bobby Jindal, American Politician

1971 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46

1970 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, American Politician

1970 Matt Blunt, American Politician

1970 Paul Ryan, American Politician

1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch Politician

1969 Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Politician

1969 Cathy McMorris, American Politician

1969 Franz von Papen, German Politician

1969 John Bracken, Canadian Politician

1969 Joshua Micah Marshall, American Politician

1968 Bob Bartlett, American Politician

1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60

1968 Robert Kennedy, American Politician

1968 J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56

1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83

1967 Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician

1967 Gavin Newsom, American Politician

1967 Artur Davis, American Politician

1967 Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

1967 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60

1967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53

1966 Dan Lipinski, American Politician

1966 Faure Gnassingbe, Togolese Politician

1966 Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64

1966 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94

1965 Peter MacKay, Canadian Politician

1965 Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

1965 Rick Larsen, American Politician

1965 Yahya Jammeh, Gambian Politician

1964 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84

1964 John Sununu, American Politician

1964 Michael Johns, American Politician

1964 Anthony Weiner, American Politician

1964 Anthony D. Weiner, American Politician

1964 Boris Johnson, British Politician

1964 Nancy Astor, British Politician

1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93

1963 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62

1963 Sam Graves, American Politician

1963 Brad Henry, American Politician

1963 Joe Scarborough, American Politician

1963 Michael K. Powell, American Politician

1963 Ron Kind, American Politician

1963 Artturi A Leinonen, Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74

1963 Mark Pryor, American Politician

1962 Jeff Flake, American Politician

1962 Warren R. Austin, American Politician

1962 Dennis Chavez, American Politician

1962 Bob Schaffer, American Politician

1962 Chris Chocola, American Politician

1962 Tammy Baldwin, American Politician

1962 Lee Terry, American Politician

1962 Melissa Bean, American Politician

1961 Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani Politician

1961 Mary Bono, American Politician

1961 Mike Ross, American Politician

1961 Barack Obama, American Politician

1961 Ma Ferguson, American Politician

1961 David Vitter, American Politician

1961 B. Carroll Reece, American Politician

1961 Gresham Barrett, American Politician

1961 Bill Shuster, American Politician

1961 John Thune, American Politician

1960 Heather Wilson, American Politician

1960 Timothy Pawlenty, American Politician

1960 Peter G. Fitzgerald, American Politician

1960 Blanche Lincoln, American Politician

1960 Edith Rogers, American Politician

1960 Aneurin Bevan, English Politician

1960 Adam Schiff, American Politician

1960 Mark Sanford, American Politician

1960 Charlie Dent, American Politician

1960 Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

1960 Jim Matheson, American Politician

1960 Michael R. Turner, American Politician

1960 Loretta Sanchez, American Politician

1959 Donna Brazile, American Politician

1959 Rahm Emanuel, American Politician

1959 Charles Kennedy, British Politician

1959 Jo Bonner, American Politician

1959 Brian Higgins, American Politician

1959 Mark Kirk, American Politician

1959 Ben Chandler, American Politician

1959 Scott Garrett, American Politician

1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71

1959 Mike Pence, American Politician

1959 Charles Hendry, born in West Sussex, England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden

1959 Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

1959 Jennifer M. Granholm, American Politician

1959 Jennifer Granholm, American Politician

1958 Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74

1958 Geoff Davis, American Politician

1958 Mac Thornberry, American Politician

1958 John Ensign, American Politician

1958 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 Hamid Karzai, born in Karz, Afghanistan, Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe, Sunni Muslim, politician, Independent Party, 12th President of Afghanistan

1957 Andrew Cuomo, American Politician

1957 Janet Napolitano, American Politician

1957 Robert. L. Ehrlich, American Politician

1957 Bob Ehrlich, American Politician

1957 J. C. Watts, American Politician

1957 James McGreevey, American Politician

1957 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 Jerry Weller, American Politician

1957 Anna Lindh, Swedish Politician

1957 John Rowland, American Politician

1957 Lisa Murkowski, American Politician

1957 Mark Kennedy, American Politician

1957 Katherine Harris, American Politician

1957 Nick Hawkins, born in the United Kingdom, politician, Conservative Party, lawyer, Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath 1992 - 2005

1957 John Hoeven, American Politician

1957 Greg Walden, American Politician

1956 Karen Hughes, American Politician

1956 Rod Blagojevich, American Politician

1956 Chaka Fattah, American Politician

1956 Jim Hodges, American Politician

1956 Grover Norquist, American Politician

1956 James Talent, American Politician

1956 South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan

1956 Sebastian Coe, British Politician

1956 Charles Richards, Canadian Politician

1956 Sam Brownback, American Politician

1956 Patrick McGeown, politician

1956 Tom McClintock, American Politician

1956 Brian Baird, American Politician

1955 Evan Bayh, American Politician

1955 Rob Portman, American Politician

1955 Otto Braun, German Politician

1955 Richard Burr, American Politician

1955 Mary Landrieu, American Politician

1955 Kevin Shelley, American Politician

1955 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, South African Politician

1955 Brian Schweitzer, American Politician

1955 Mike Huckabee, American Politician

1955 John Sweeney, American Politician

1955 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician

1955 Lindsey Graham, American Politician

1955 George Radanovich, American Politician

1955 Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

1955 Jon Porter, American Politician

1955 John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence

1955 David Wu, American Politician

1955 Svetozar Marovic, Yugoslavian Politician

1955 Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

1955 Henry Bellingham, born in Cheltenham, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk

1955 Ken Salazar, American Politician

1955 Jim Gerlach, American Politician

1955 John Elias Baldacci, American Politician

1955 John Baldacci, American Politician

1955 David Pratt, Canadian Politician

1954 Mark Warner, American Politician

1954 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 Mike Rounds, American Politician

1954 Brad Sherman, American Politician

1954 Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67

1954 Al Sharpton, American Politician

1954 Murtaza Bhutto, politician

1954 Mark Foley, American Politician

1954 Pauline Hanson, Australian Politician

1954 George Galloway, British Politician

1954 Michael Badnarik, American Politician

1954 Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela

1954 Betty McCollum, American Politician

1954 Bob Ney, American Politician

1954 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 Jerry Moran, American Politician

1954 Candice S. Miller, American Politician

1954 Iain Duncan Smith, British Politician

1954 Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Politician

1954 Robert Menendez, American Politician

1953 Trevor Phillips, British Politician

1953 Tom Barrett, American Politician

1953 Geoff Hoon, British Politician

1953 Peter Mandelson, British Politician

1953 Julian Brazier, born in Kent, England, British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury

1953 John Salazar, American Politician

1953 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 Francis Maude, British Politician

1953 Baron Hill, American Politician

1953 John Edwards, American Politician

1953 Linda Lingle, American Politician

1953 Stephen Byers, born in Wolverhampton, England, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North

1953 Lincoln Chafee, American Politician

1953 Robert M. La Follette, American Politician

1953 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 Jeb Bush, American Politician

1953 Antonio Villaraigosa, American Politician

1953 Steve Chabot, American Politician

1952 Bill Kristol, American Politician

1952 Susan Collins, American Politician

1952 John Lynch, American Politician

1952 Ernie Fletcher, American Politician

1952 William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician

1952 Chris Cox, American Politician

1952 Ed Case, American Politician

1952 Bob Goodlatte, American Politician

1952 Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies

1952 Philip E. Berger, American Politician

1952 August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58

1952 James H. Douglas, American Politician

1952 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 Spencer Abraham, American Politician

1952 Gordon Smith, American Politician

1952 John Kasich, American Politician

1952 Jim Costa, American Politician

1952 David Amess, born in London, England, British politician, Conservative, Member of Parliament for Southend West

1952 Bill Frist, American Politician

1952 Randy Forbes, American Politician

1952 Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean Politician

1952 John Hickenlooper, American Politician

1952 John Cornyn, American Politician

1952 Andrew Smith, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, Andrew David Smith, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Oxford East

1952 Charles F. Bass, American Politician

1952 Charles Foster Bass, American Politician

1951 Traian Basescu, Romanian Politician

1951 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician

1951 John Tierney, American Politician

1951 Bertie Ahern, Irish Politician

1951 Albert Wynn, American Politician

1951 Alexander Downer, Australian Politician

1951 Jim DeMint, American Politician

1951 Anthony A. Williams, American Politician

1951 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 Rob Bishop, American Politician

1951 John Redwood, British Politician

1951 Todd Tiahrt, American Politician

1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73

1951 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 Michael Crapo, American Politician

1951 Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey

1951 John Battle, born in Bradford, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Leeds West, attended University of Leeds

1951 Lynne Jones, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, Labour party, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak

1951 Ian McCartney, born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, British politician, Member of Parliament for Makerfield

1951 Gwen Moore, American Politician

1951 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 Earl Howe, born in England, British politician, Conservative, front bench member, House of Lords, Health spokesman

1951 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 Shelley Berkley, American Politician

1950 Karl Rove, American Politician

1950 Thomas Vilsack, American Politician

1950 Charles Schumer, American Politician

1950 John Doolittle, American Politician

1950 Bill Owens, American Politician

1950 Chris Cannon, American Politician

1950 Dave Freudenthal, American Politician

1950 Patty Murray, American Politician

1950 Jo Ann Emerson, American Politician

1950 Mike Simpson, American Politician

1950 Michael K. Simpson, American Politician

1950 Dick Spring, Irish Politician

1950 Dave Reichert, American Politician

1950 Stockwell Day, Canadian Politician

1950 Alan Keyes, American Politician

1950 Mark Udall, American Politician

1950 Jo Ann Davis, American Politician

1950 Mike Johanns, American Politician

1950 Tim Bishop, American Politician

1950 Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician

1950 Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington

1950 Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia

1950 Scott McCallum, American Politician

1950 Debbie Stabenow, American Politician

1950 Michael F. Easley, American Politician

1950 Rick Perry, American Politician

1950 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 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 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 Gary Locke, American Politician

1950 Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician

1950 Roy Blunt, American Politician

1949 Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008

1949 Jerry Costello, American Politician

1949 Joe Barton, American Politician

1949 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South Africa Kwazulu politician

1949 Bob Holden, American Politician

1949 Norm Coleman, American Politician

1949 Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Politician

1949 Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai Politician

1949 Frank Murphy, American Politician

1949 Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon

1949 Steve King, American Politician

1949 Tom Cole, American Politician

1949 Walter Sweeney, born in Ireland, born Walter Edward Sweeney, politician, lawyer, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan

1949 Mitch Daniels, American Politician

1949 Greg Knight, British Politician

1949 Richard Neal, American Politician

1949 Frank Rich, U.S. politician

1949 Goran Persson, Swedish Politician

1948 David Davis, British Politician

1948 Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician

1948 Patricia Hewitt, British Politician

1948 Howard Dean, American Politician

1948 Max Burns, American Politician

1948 John Engler, American Politician

1948 Gerry Adams, Irish Politician

1948 Allyson Schwartz, American Politician

1948 John M. McHugh, American Politician

1948 Bob Beauprez, American Politician

1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician

1948 Ted Poe, American Politician

1948 Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52

1948 Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Politician

1948 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 John B. Larson, American Politician

1948 John Larson, American Politician

1948 Tom Latham, American Politician

1948 Joaquin Almunia, Spanish Politician

1948 Duncan Hunter, American Politician

1948 Richard H. Baker, American Politician

1948 Tom Udall, American Politician

1948 Kathleen Sebelius, American Politician

1948 Dave Heineman, American Politician

1948 Paul Cellucci, American Politician

1948 Joschka Fischer, German Politician

1948 Jorge Elecier Gaitan, Colombian politician, murdered

1948 Nigel Jones, born in Chelenham, England, politician, Liberal Democrat, Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1992 - 2005

1948 Tom Coburn, American Politician

1948 Roy Barnes, American Politician

1948 Kenneth Blackwell, American Politician

1948 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician

1948 Josephus Daniels, American Politician

1948 Bob Wise, American Politician

1947 Zoe Lofgren, American Politician

1947 Tom Daschle, American Politician

1947 Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician, PvdA 2nd Chamber

1947 Lamar S. Smith, American Politician

1947 Bill Richardson, American Politician

1947 Haley Barbour, American Politician

1947 Vic Snyder, American Politician

1947 Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician

1947 Tessa Jowell, born in Marylebone, England, politician, Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood, Cabinet Minister

1947 John Kline, American Politician

1947 Joe Manchin, American Politician

1947 Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician

1947 Todd Akin, American Politician

1947 Jim Walsh, Irish Politician

1947 Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian Politician

1947 David Blunkett, British Politician

1947 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 Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Politician

1947 Andrew Card, American Politician

1947 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 Tom DeLay, American Politician

1947 Christine Gregoire, American Politician

1947 Karen McCarthy, American Politician

1947 Mitt Romney, American Politician

1947 Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician

1947 John Dawkins, Australian Politician

1947 Lewis Moonie, born in Dundee, England, Baron Moonie, politician, life peer, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Kircaldy

1947 Olympia Snowe, American Politician

1947 Eliot Engel, American Politician

1947 Stephen Hadley, American Politician

1947 Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician

1947 Adam Ingram, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Stathaven, Lesmahagow

1947 Mark Dayton, American Politician

1947 Joe Baca, American Politician

1947 Robert Martin, American Politician

1947 Samuel Schmid, Swiss Politician

1947 Mike DeWine, American Politician

1947 Jon Corzine, American Politician

1946 Tim Johnson, American Politician

1946 Jeff Sessions, American Politician

1946 Sonny Perdue, American Politician

1946 Josiah Bailey, American Politician

1946 Rodney Alexander, American Politician

1946 Barbara Cubin, American Politician

1946 Richard J. Codey, American Politician

1946 Bobby Rush, American Politician

1946 Jodi Rell, American Politician

1946 Mel Martinez, American Politician

1946 Naveen Patnaik, Indian Politician

1946 Dennis Kucinich, American Politician

1946 Lloyd Doggett, American Politician

1946 Chuck Hagel, American Politician

1946 Gifford Pinchot, American Politician

1946 Christine Todd Whitman, American Politician

1946 Christie Todd Whitman, American Politician

1946 Tom Ridge, American Politician

1946 Ron Davies, Welsh Politician

1946 Rick Boucher, American Politician

1946 James Maxton, politician, dies

1946 Ed Markey, American Politician

1946 Dudley Fishburn, born in England, British politician, journalist, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, holds directorship for Altria Group

1946 Carter Glass, American Politician

1946 Archy Kirkwood, born in the United Kingdom, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire 1983 - 2005

1946 Paul Beresford, born in Levin, New Zealand, Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Mole Valley

1946 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician

1946 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician

1946 Clare Short, born in Birmingham, England, politician, left wing, Secretary of State for Internal Development, supports legislating cannabis, critical of Israel

1946 Bernard Dowiyogo, Politician

1946 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 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 Tom Tancredo, American Politician

1945 John Amery, British Politician

1945 Dennis Moore, American Politician

1945 Jim Doyle, American Politician

1945 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian Politician

1945 Tom McMillan, Canadian Politician

1945 Mel Watt, American Politician

1945 William Weld, American Politician

1945 Bill Weld, American Politician

1945 Larry Craig, American Politician

1945 Michael Martin, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East, Speaker of the House of Commons

1945 Jane Harman, American Politician

1945 Bill Luther, American Politician

1945 George Pataki, American Politician

1945 George E. Pataki, American Politician

1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel

1945 Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician

1945 Allen Boyd, American Politician

1945 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 James P. Moran, American Politician

1945 Charlie Gonzalez, American Politician

1945 Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed

1945 Richard Armitage, American Politician

1945 Robert A. Brady, American Politician

1945 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37

1944 Bob Brown, Australian Politician

1944 Johnny Isakson, American Politician

1944 Jim Gibbons, American Politician

1944 Dick Durbin, American Politician

1944 Emanuel Cleaver, American Politician

1944 David Trimble, Irish Politician

1944 Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52

1944 George Nethercutt, American Politician

1944 Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician

1944 John S. Tanner, American Politician

1944 Ander Crenshaw, American Politician

1944 Collin C. Peterson, American Politician

1944 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 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 Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China

1944 Christopher Dodd, American Politician

1944 Olga Maitland, born in England, born Lady Helen Olga Hay, known as Lady Olga Maitland, politician, Conservative Party

1944 Chris Patten, British Politician

1944 Susan Davis, American Politician

1944 Jesse Brown, American Politician

1944 Said Musa, born in San Ignacio, Belize, lawyer, politician, People's United Party, Fifth Prime Minister of Belize

1944 Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour

1944 Michael Oxley, American Politician

1944 Michael Enzi, American Politician

1944 James Cran, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness 1997 - 2005

1944 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies

1944 Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician

1944 Edward G. Rendell, American Politician

1944 Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician

1944 Ed Rendell, American Politician

1943 Tarja Halonen, born in Kallio, Finland, politician, lawyer, Social Democratic Party, first female President of Finland

1943 John F. Kerry, American Politician

1943 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46

1943 Wayne Allard, American Politician

1943 Jerry Kleczka, American Politician

1943 Phil Bredesen, American Politician

1943 Saxby Chambliss, American Politician

1943 Robert M. Gates, American Politician

1943 Lincoln Davis, American Politician

1943 Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

1943 Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000

1943 Keith Hampson, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Ripon

1943 Ronald Campbell, born in Tynemouth, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley

1943 Bill Bradley, American Politician

1943 Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician, PvdA, 2nd Chamber

1943 Kay Hutchison, American Politician

1943 Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Politician

1943 Virginia Foxx, American Politician

1943 Jim Sensenbrenner, American Politician

1943 Elizabeth Andrews, British Politician

1943 Bob Livingston, American Politician

1943 Tony Banks, English politician, Lab

1943 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 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74

1943 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 Rob Simmons, American Politician

1943 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 John Mica, American Politician

1943 Jim Saxton, American Politician

1943 Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician

1943 Kay Granger, American Politician

1943 Fernando Flores, Chilean Politician

1942 Thomas Menino, American Politician

1942 Gray Davis, American Politician

1942 Donald L. Carcieri, American Politician

1942 Dick Murphy, American Politician

1942 Kathleen Blanco, American Politician

1942 Anna Eshoo, American Politician

1942 Gary Ackerman, American Politician

1942 Jack Carroll, Canadian Politician

1942 John Spratt, American Politician

1942 James A. Leach, American Politician

1942 Bill Nelson, American Politician

1942 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 Michael Stephen, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Shoreham from 1992 until 1997

1942 Nathan Deal, American Politician

1942 Max Cleland, American Politician

1942 Frank Field, born in Edmonton, London, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Birkhead, served as Minister of Welfare Reform

1942 Javier Solana, Spanish Politician

1942 Preston Manning, Canadian Politician

1942 Byron Dorgan, American Politician

1942 John Kyl, American Politician

1942 Sidney K. Barthelmy, U.S. politician

1942 Michael Bloomberg, American Politician

1942 Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician

1942 Bob Taft, American Politician

1942 Dennis Hastert, American Politician

1941 Bob Matsui, American Politician

1941 Bernie Sanders, American Politician

1941 Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa

1941 Danny K. Davis, American Politician

1941 Bob Etheridge, American Politician

1941 Charlie Norwood, born in Georgia, Army Captain, politician, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia

1941 Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician, VVD, minister of Traffic

1941 Bill Delahunt, American Politician

1941 Sam Farr, American Politician

1941 Michael M. Honda, American Politician

1941 Mike Honda, American Politician

1941 Ben Nelson, American Politician

1941 Howard Berman, American Politician

1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82

1941 Don Sherwood, American Politician

1941 Paddy Ashdown, British Politician

1941 John Butterfill, born in Kingston upon Thames, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament Bournemouth West

1941 Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress, Zelda-Dobie Gillis

1941 Doc Hastings, American Politician

1941 Dick Gephardt, American Politician

1940 Norm Dicks, American Politician

1940 Ted Kulongoski, American Politician

1940 Joseph J. DioGuardi, Politician

1940 Nong Duc Manh, born in Na Ri District, Bac Kan province, Vietnam, Vietnamese Politician

1940 Ted Olson, American Politician

1940 William S. Cohen, American Politician

1940 Ruben Hinojosa, American Politician

1940 David E. Price, American Politician

1940 John W. Carlin, born in Salina, Kansas, politician, 40th Governor of Kansas 1979 - 1987, Archivist of the United States 1995 - 2005

1940 Paul Hirsch, German Politician

1940 Pat Schroeder, American Politician

1940 Terry Patchett, politician

1940 Dick Armey, American Politician

1940 Lamar Alexander, American Politician

1940 William Cash, born in London, England, born William Nigel Paul Cash, politician, Member of Parliament for Stafford, Member of Parliament for Stone

1940 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 John Gilmour, Scottish Politician

1940 Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician, PvdA

1940 Frank Dobson, British Politician

1940 Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives

1939 Tom Hayden, born in Detroit, Michigan, California politician

1939 Harry Reid, American Politician

1939 Tom Harkin, American Politician

1939 Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese Politician

1939 Henry A. Waxman, Politician

1939 Henry Waxman, American Politician

1939 Mike Castle, American Politician

1939 Chuck Robb, American Politician

1939 Barry George Barrington Porter, politician

1939 Phil Gallie, born in Portsmouth, England, born Philip Roy Gallie, politician, Conservative Party, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Member of Parliament for Ayr

1939 Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire

1939 Ron Ziegler, American Politician

1939 Malcolm Thornton, born in England, politician, Conservative party, Member of Parliament for Liverpool 1979 - 1983, Member of Parliament for Crosby 1983 - 1997

1939 Charles Lyell, born in England, born Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, politician, Conservative Party, whip, House of Lords, Peerage of the United Kingdom

1939 Kit Bond, American Politician

1939 Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary

1939 Frank R. Wolf, American Politician

1938 Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician, Crossfire

1938 David Obey, American Politician

1938 Andrei Lukanov, politician

1938 Sam Nunn, American Politician

1938 Art Agnos, U.S., politician

1938 Paul Martin, Canadian Politician

1938 Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005

1938 Stuart Bell, born in County Durham, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough

1938 Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler, S&L scandal

1938 David Steel, British Politician

1938 Norman Hogg, born in Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997

1938 Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University

1938 Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO, VARA Radio/TV

1938 Betico Croes, Arubian politician, Status Aparte

1938 Arthur Scargill, British Politician

1937 Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician

1937 Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician

1937 Michael Jeffery, Australian Politician

1937 Peter Lloyd, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Fareham 1979 - 2001

1937 Stephen Lewis, Canadian Politician

1937 Alice Mahon, born in Halifax, England, trade unionist, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Halifax 1987 - 2005

1937 Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician

1937 Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician, CDA, 2nd Chamber

1937 Peter Pike, born in England, born Peter Leslie Pike, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Burnley

1937 Jay Rockefeller, American Politician

1937 Jim Hunt, born in Wilson, North Carolina, politician, Democratic Party, first and only four-term Governor of North Carolina 1976 - 2001

1937 Terry Dicks, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington 1983 - 1997

1937 Jerry Wiggin, born in Worcestershire, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

1937 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 John Hume, Irish Politician

1936 Jim McDermott, American Politician

1936 William L. Jenkins, American Politician

1936 Jim Sasser, American Politician

1936 Sue Kelly, American Politician

1936 Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies

1936 Kenny Guinn, American Politician

1936 Elizabeth Dole, American Politician

1936 George Voinovich, American Politician

1936 Major R. Owens, American Politician

1936 Major Owens, American Politician

1936 Marion Barry, American Politician

1936 Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician

1935 Paul O'Neill, American Politician

1935 Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician

1935 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman

1935 Tom Atkins, American Politician

1935 Huey Long, American Politician

1935 Richard Lamm, American Politician

1935 Ron Paul, American Politician

1935 Derek Anthony Enright, politician

1935 John Swan, raised in Deepdale, Bermuda, politician, United Bermuda Party, Premier of Bermuda 1982 - 1985

1935 Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber

1935 Tom Pendry, born in England, Baron Pendry, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970 - 2001

1935 Denis J. Worrall, South African politician/leader, DP

1935 Thomas H. Kean, American Politician

1935 Frank Jordan, American Politician

1935 Michel Aoun, born in Haret Hreik, Lebanon, Lebanese soldier and politician

1935 Paul Flynn, born in Cardiff, Wales, born Paul Philip Flynn, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Newport West

1935 Conrad Burns, American Politician

1935 Pete du Pont, American Politician

1935 Ruth Ann Minner, American Politician

1934 James Inhofe, American Politician

1934 Kenneth Baker, English Politician

1934 Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975

1934 Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician

1934 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician

1934 Donald M. Payne, American Politician

1934 Carl Levin, American Politician

1934 Michael Mates, born in England, born Michael John Mates, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for East Hampshire

1934 James Jeffords, American Politician

1934 Jim Jeffords, American Politician

1934 Richard Shelby, American Politician

1934 Keith Speed, born in Evesham, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Meriden in Warwickshire 1968 - 1974

1934 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 George Ryan, American Politician

1934 Mel Carnahan, American Politician

1934 Nick Clooney, American Politician

1934 Leonard Boswell, American Politician

1934 Piet Dankert, Dutch politician, PvdA

1934 Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982

1933 Alex Campbell, Canadian Politician

1933 Diane Watson, American Politician

1933 Michael Dukakis, American Politician

1933 Robert Bennett, American Politician

1933 Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician

1933 Chuck Grassley, American Politician

1933 Charles Grassley, American Politician

1933 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 Ken Lucas, American Politician

1933 George J. Mitchell, American Politician

1933 Rod Paige, American Politician

1933 Tim Rathbone, born in England, born John Rankin Rathbone, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Lewes from 1974 to 1997

1933 Frank H. Murkowski, American Politician

1933 Frank Murkowski, American Politician

1933 Myrlie Evers, politician and commissioner LA Board of Public works

1933 Paul Sarbanes, American Politician

1933 Bill Hayden, Australian Politician

1932 David Lincoln Lightbown, politician

1932 Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician

1932 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese Politician

1932 John Sharp Williams, American Politician

1932 Gilbert Parker, British Politician

1932 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 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 Dick Thornburgh, American Politician

1932 Donald Rumsfeld, politician

1932 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 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies

1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1932 Pete Domenici, American Politician

1932 Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs

1932 Zell Miller, American Politician

1932 Edward Kennedy, American Politician

1932 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 Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1931 Pete Stark, American Politician

1931 Sandy Levin, American Politician

1931 Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines

1931 Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician, VVD

1931 Bert Lance, American Politician

1931 James Q. Wilson, American Politician

1931 Norman Tebbit, born in Southgate, England, politician, Member of Parliament

1931 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician

1930 Meg Greenfield, U.S. politician

1930 Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician

1930 Phil Crane, American Politician

1930 Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

1930 Raymond J. Donovan, American Politician

1930 Gerald B. H. Solomon, Politician

1930 John G. Schmitz, American Politician

1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism

1930 Harvey Milk, American Politician

1930 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 Ray Blanton, American Politician

1930 Arlen Spector, American Politician

1930 Roger Sims, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1974 - 1997

1929 Louise Slaughter, American Politician

1929 John Conyers, American Politician

1929 Jeremy Thorpe, British Politician

1929 Amedee Turner, born in England, Amedee Edward Turner, politician, barrister, Conservative Party, Member of the European Parliament, patent lawyer

1929 Tom Foley, American Politician

1929 Bill Walker, born in Dundee, Scotland, politician, deputy chairman, Scottish Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire

1929 Richard Long, born in London, England, Richard Gerard Long, 4th Viscount Long, politician, Conservative Party

1929 Bill O'Brien, British Politician

1928 Eric Lubbock, born in England, born Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, 4th Baron Avebury, politician, Liberal Party, Member of Parliament for Orpington

1928 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 Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician

1928 Peter Griffiths, born in London, born Peter Harry Steve Griffiths, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Smethwick

1928 Chauncey Depew, American Politician

1928 Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician

1928 Elizabeth Joan Smith, Canadian Politician

1927 Romeo LeBlanc, Canadian Politician

1927 Ellis Hillman, politician

1927 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician

1927 William J. Perry, American Politician

1927 Kenneth Eastham, born in England, politician, Labor Party Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley 1979 - 1997

1927 Edwin W. Edwards, Politician

1927 Edwin Edwards, American Politician

1927 Richard Body, born in England, Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, politician, Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959

1927 Joop F. Wolff, Dutch editor, Truth, Dutch politician, CPN

1927 Robert Mosbacher, U.S. politician

1927 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician

1927 John Warner, American Politician

1927 Richard Snelling, American Politician

1926 Joseph McKenna, American Politician

1926 Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician

1926 H. R. Haldeman, American Politician

1926 Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies

1926 Eugene V. Debs, American Politician

1926 John Dingell, American Politician

1926 Ian Gilmour, English Politician

1926 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician

1926 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 Roscoe Bartlett, American Politician

1926 Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician, Wyoming house of Reps

1926 John "Jack" Layden, local politician

1925 Robert Kennedy, American Politician

1925 Howard H. Baker, Jr., American Politician

1925 Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker

1925 Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician, Never on a Sunday

1925 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 Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician

1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician

1925 Rhodes Boyson, born in Lancashire, England, Sir Rhodes Boyson, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Brent North

1925 John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford

1925 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 John D Erlichman, Politician, Nixon aide, Watergate

1925 John Ehrlichman, American Politician

1925 Sef Imkamp, Dutch politician

1925 Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician, KVP/CDA

1925 Fred Catherwood, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, politician, writer, Conservative member of the European Parliament, president of Evangelical Alliance

1925 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 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician

1924 Willem Drees, economist/Dutch politician, DS'70

1924 Edward Koch, Politician

1924 Ed Koch, American Politician

1924 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician

1924 Daniel Akaka, American Politician

1924 Daniel Inouye, American Politician

1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician

1924 Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician

1924 Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80

1924 Frank Lautenberg, American Politician

1923 Maurice Barres, French Politician

1923 Ted Stevens, American Politician

1923 J T Mellema, Boer politician, CHU

1923 Michio Watanabe, politician

1923 Bob Dole, American Politician

1923 Robert J. Dole, American Politician

1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67

1923 Knute Nelson, American Politician

1923 James L. Buckley, American Politician

1922 Neil Blaney, politician

1922 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 David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician

1922 David Nicolson, businessman/politician

1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40

1922 Clark MacGregor, politician, involved in Watergate

1922 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63

1922 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, Volksunie

1922 Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician

1922 Harold E. Hughes, American Politician

1922 Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician

1922 Fritz Hollings, American Politician

1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84

1921 P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician

1921 George Henderson, priest/politician

1921 John V. Lindsay, Politician

1921 John Lindsay, American Politician

1921 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician, CDA

1921 Howell Heflin, American Politician

1921 Robert Croften Brown, politician

1921 Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician

1921 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 Georg Leber, German politician, SPD

1920 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 Richard von Weizsaecker, German Politician

1920 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73

1919 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician

1919 Kiichi Miyazawa, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, politician, 78th Japanese Prime Minister

1919 Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician

1919 George C. Wallace, American Politician

1919 Edward Leadbitter, politician

1919 Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980

1918 George H. White, American Politician

1918 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician

1918 Kurt Waldheim, born in Austria, Austrian diplomat, politician, Secretary-General of the U.N., ninth President of Austria

1918 Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician

1918 James Cameron Tudor, politician

1918 Jigal Allon, Israeli politician

1918 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 John Berger, politician

1918 Anthony Crosland, British Politician

1918 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician

1918 William Whitelaw, British Politician

1918 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73

1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker

1918 Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician

1917 Robert Byrd, American Politician

1917 Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43

1917 Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament

1917 Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister

1917 Denis Healey, English politician

1917 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 William Scranton, American Politician

1917 William Henry Moody, American Politician

1917 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician

1917 Reginald Maudling, British Politician

1917 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician

1917 Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR, Indian film star, politician

1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70

1916 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 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician

1916 Phyllis Stedman, politician

1916 Gaylord Nelson, American Politician

1916 Cornelie Coposu, politician

1916 Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician

1916 Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician, PvdA

1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71

1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78

1915 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75

1915 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician

1915 Harry van Doorn, Henri W, CRM minister/Dutch politician, KVP/PPR

1915 Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

1915 Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

1915 Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician

1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician

1915 John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host

1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies

1915 Derk Roemers, Dutch politician, Soc-Dem

1915 John D. Profumo, born in England, politician

1915 Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician

1914 William Allen Egan, American Politician

1914 James Scarlett, born in England, born James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, Lord Abinger, politician, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy Lieutenant for Essex

1914 Shin Kanemaru, politician

1914 Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

1914 Arthur Holt, politician

1914 Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician

1914 Herman Siles Zuazo, politician

1914 Malcolm Wilson, American Politician

1914 Edqard John Gurney, politician

1913 George Smathers, born in New Jersey, American lawyer, politician, U.S. Senator from Florida

1913 James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician

1913 Hans Filbinger, German politician, CDU

1913 John N. Mitchell, American Politician

1913 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies

1913 Michael Foot, born Plymouth, England, born Michael Mackintosh Foot, writer, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

1913 Fritz Erler, German politician, SDP

1913 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician

1913 Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician

1913 Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies

1913 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician

1913 Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician

1913 Tom McCall, American Politician

1913 August Bebel, German Politician

1913 Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest

1913 Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49

1912 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician

1912 John P. Jones, American Politician

1912 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, soldier/politician

1912 David F. Powers, American Politician

1912 Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81

1912 John Adrian Hope, politician and businessman

1912 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 John Amery, British Politician

1912 Edward Blake, Canadian Politician

1912 Ian Orr-Ewing, born in England, Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Hendon North, Baronet of Hendon

1911 Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies

1911 Peter Muir Doig, politician

1911 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician

1911 Roger Q. Mills, American Politician

1911 Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician

1911 Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician, 1964-

1911 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician, New Class

1911 George Dorsey, American Politician

1911 Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician

1911 J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, MP

1911 Kukrit Pramoj, politician

1911 Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman

1911 Ivan Allen, American Politician

1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian

1910 Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician

1910 Barbara Castle, British Politician

1910 Gaston Deferre, French politician

1910 J A Manusama, Moluccan politician

1910 David Gilroy Bevan, politician

1910 Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician, CHU

1910 Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman

1910 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician

1909 Kwame Nkrumah, Politician

1909 Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician

1909 Scott McClellan, American Politician

1909 Matt Gonzalez, American Politician

1909 Silvan Shalom, Israeli Politician

1909 Terry McAuliffe, American Politician

1909 Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician

1909 Roger Stone, American Politician

1909 Mack McLarty, American Politician

1909 Shirley Franklin, American Politician

1909 Willie Herenton, American Politician

1909 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician

1909 David Dean Rusk, American Politician

1908 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin

1908 John Reginald Bevins, politician

1908 Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician

1908 Aruna Asaf Ali, politician

1908 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician

1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician

1908 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer and politician

1907 Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician

1907 James Roosevelt, American Politician

1907 Lin Piau, Chinese politician

1907 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician

1907 Lord Hailsham, British Politician

1907 Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party

1907 Ernesto Geisel, politician

1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies

1907 Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician, Frame

1907 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician

1907 Margaret Peggy McCrorie Herbison, politician

1907 Helmuth J. von Moltke, German politician, July 20th plot

1907 Harm van Riel, Dutch politician, Dutch Liberal Party

1907 Arthur George Bottomley, politician

1907 Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician

1906 Leonid I. Brezhnev, Politician

1906 John Morrison, politician/landowner

1906 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician

1906 Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician, CDU

1906 Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD

1905 Julius Silverman, politician

1905 John Hay, U.S. politician, dies

1905 John H. Reagan, American Politician

1904 Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician

1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies

1904 Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician

1904 Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies

1904 Bob Bartlett, American Politician

1904 Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician

1904 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician, SDAP, resistance fighter

1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64

1903 Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist

1903 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician

1903 Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician

1903 Basil Nield, judge/politician

1903 Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician

1903 Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58

1902 Thomas Reed, American Politician

1902 George H. Fallon, American Politician

1902 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician

1902 Richard J. Daley, American Politician

1902 Megan Lloyd George, English politician

1902 Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician

1901 Walter Hallstein, West German politician, CDU, Hallstein doctrine

1901 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, SPD

1901 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64

1901 Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician

1901 Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76

1900 Norris Cotton, American Politician

1900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician, Bread and Wine

1900 Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

1899 Georges Bidault, French Politician

1899 Tom C. Clark, American Politician

1899 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth

1899 Richard Parks Bland, American Politician

1899 Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician

1898 Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician

1898 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist

1898 Brooks Hays, American Politician

1898 August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder, CVP

1898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician, The Spark

1898 Luther H. Hodges, American Politician

1897 Aneurin Bevan, English Politician

1897 Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat/politician

1897 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer, Fascism is War!

1897 Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician

1897 Heinrich von Stephan, U.K. politician, dies

1897 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist

1897 Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician

1896 Arthur Calwell, Australian Politician

1896 Trygve Lie, Norwegian Politician

1896 Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician

1896 Andrei A. Zjdanov, Russian politician, against kosmopolitism

1895 August De Boodt, Belgian politician

1895 Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician

1895 John G. Diefenbaker, Politician

1895 Earl Long, American Politician

1895 Prescott Bush, American Politician

1895 Robert M. La Follette, American Politician

1894 Joseph E. Brown, American Politician

1894 Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician

1894 Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician

1894 Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman

1894 Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65

1894 Harold MacMillan, English Politician

1893 August Balthazar, Belgian politician

1893 Huey Long, American Politician

1892 Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician

1891 John William McCormack, American Politician

1891 Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician

1891 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician

1891 Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician, SDAP/AJC/PvdA

1890 Allen J. Ellender, American Politician

1890 Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law

1890 Frank Murphy, American Politician

1889 B. Carroll Reece, American Politician

1889 Robert A. Taft, American Politician

1889 John Bright, British Politician

1888 Artturi A. Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer, Kati, politician

1888 Dennis Chavez, American Politician

1887 Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician

1887 Alf Landon, American Politician

1887 Friedrich Lubke, German politician

1887 Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician

1887 Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician

1887 Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German/US pianist/politician, NSDAP

1886 L G Kortenhorst, politician

1886 Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Russian revolutionary politician

1886 Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies

1886 Horatio Seymour, American Politician

1885 Martin R Delany, politician and black nationalist, dies at 72

1884 Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician

1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter

1884 Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59

1884 Frederik Gerretson, Geerten Gossaert, Dutch poet/politician

1884 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army

1883 John Bracken, Canadian Politician

1882 Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician

1882 Louis Blanc, French Politician

1882 Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher

1882 Sam Rayburn, American Politician

1881 Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician

1881 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69

1881 Edith Rogers, American Politician

1881 Enver Pasja, Turkish general and politician

1881 Fernando Wood, American Politician

1880 George W. Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies

1880 Jeanette Rankin, American Politician

1880 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80

1879 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician

1879 Franz von Papen, German Politician

1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize

1879 Charles Richards, Canadian Politician

1879 Nancy Astor, British Politician

1879 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician

1879 James F. Byrnes, American Politician

1878 Karl Buresch, Austria politician

1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1878 William M "Boss" Tweed, New York politician, dies

1878 Boss Tweed, American Politician

1878 Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate

1878 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician

1877 Warren R. Austin, American Politician

1876 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician

1876 John Gilmour, Scottish Politician

1876 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74

1875 John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71

1875 Ma Ferguson, American Politician

1875 Duff Green, American Politician

1874 Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies

1874 Gerrit Smith, American Politician

1874 Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician

1874 Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician, social-democratic

1873 Alfred E. Smith, American Politician

1873 Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician

1873 Josiah Bailey, American Politician

1873 Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

1873 Salmon P. Chase, American Politician

1873 Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician

1873 Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician

1872 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72

1872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician

1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70

1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82

1872 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician, ARP

1872 Otto Braun, German Politician

1871 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician

1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, East Africa

1870 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 Jan R Slotemaker de Bruine, Dutch clergyman/politician, CHU

1868 Paul Hirsch, German Politician

1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem

1865 Gifford Pinchot, American Politician

1864 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39

1864 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and politician

1863 Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician

1862 Gilbert Parker, British Politician

1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S., politician/author, Progressive

1862 William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician

1862 Maurice Barres, French Politician

1862 Thornton F Brodhead, U.S. lawyer/politician/Brigadier-General, dies at 40

1862 Josephus Daniels, American Politician

1861 Stephen Douglas, American Politician

1860 Thomas Cochrane, English Politician

1860 Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80

1860 James Wilson, politician

1860 Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63

1859 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies

1859 Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician

1859 Willem J. Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat

1858 James Gadsden, American Politician

1858 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician, Kapp Putsch 1920

1858 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician

1858 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician, SDAP

1858 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927

1858 Carter Glass, American Politician

1857 John Wilson Croker, politician

1856 Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician

1856 John Eaton, American Politician

1856 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest and politician, Volkseeuw

1855 Eugene V. Debs, American Politician

1855 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician

1854 Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician

1854 Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician

1854 John Sharp Williams, American Politician

1854 Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician

1853 William Henry Moody, American Politician

1853 Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician

1852 George H. White, American Politician

1852 John McKinley, American Politician

1852 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician

1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920

1851 Philip Hone, American Politician

1851 Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95

1850 Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician

1849 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck

1849 Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician, Garman og Worse

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father

1848 William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician

1847 Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician

1847 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician

1847 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician

1846 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician

1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician

1846 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper

1846 Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician

1845 Henry M baron the Kock, officer/politician, dies at 65

1845 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician

1844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908

1844 Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65

1844 Hermanus J. A. M. Schaepman, clergyman and Dutch politician

1843 Joseph McKenna, American Politician

1843 Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68

1843 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician

1843 [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician

1843 Knute Nelson, American Politician

1842 Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician

1842 George Dorsey, American Politician

1841 Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician

1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82

1840 August Bebel, German Politician

1840 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard

1839 Thomas Reed, American Politician

1839 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies

1839 Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician

1838 John Milton Hay, politician, Union

1837 Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician

1837 Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician

1837 P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician

1837 Joseph Anderson, American Politician

1836 Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner

1836 Joseph Cannon, American Politician

1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist and politician

1836 Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

1835 Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73

1835 Richard Parks Bland, American Politician

1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902

1834 Chauncey Depew, American Politician

1834 Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician

1833 Edward Blake, Canadian Politician

1833 Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois

1833 William Wilberforce, English Politician

1833 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74

1832 Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor

1832 Roger Q. Mills, American Politician

1830 Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope

1830 H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63

1829 John P. Jones, American Politician

1828 Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician

1828 Johannes von Miquel, German politician

1826 Luther Martin, American Politician

1826 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 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner

1824 Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician

1824 Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician

1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74

1823 Boss Tweed, American Politician

1822 Nathaniel Smith, American Politician

1821 Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist, cell pathology

1821 Joseph E. Brown, American Politician

1821 Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62

1820 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer, Phantasterne

1819 William Samuel Johnson, American Politician

1819 John Langdon, American Politician

1819 Hugh Williamson, American Politician

1818 Philip Francis, English Politician

1818 John H. Reagan, American Politician

1818 Daniel Smith, American Politician

1818 John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61

1817 Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates

1816 James McHenry, American Politician

1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64

1814 Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71

1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84

1813 Zachariah Chandler, U.S., merchant/politician, found Republican Party

1813 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician

1813 Stephen Douglas, American Politician

1812 Fernando Wood, American Politician

1811 Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz

1811 John Bright, British Politician

1811 Louis Blanc, French Politician

1811 Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician

1811 Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician

1811 George Caleb Bingham, U.S., politician/painter, Country Election

1810 Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Argentina politician/writer

1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61

1809 Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59

1809 Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician

1809 George W. Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician

1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist

1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer

1808 Salmon P. Chase, American Politician

1808 Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician

1807 Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, born in Paris, France, French politician and revolutionary

1806 Charles James Fox, English Politician

1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer

1804 Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

1804 Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician, RC

1802 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician

1801 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies

1800 Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

1800 Willem A. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician

1799 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician

1798 James Wilson, American Politician

1797 Gerrit Smith, American Politician

1796 Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician

1794 Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician

1794 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39

1794 Richard Henry Lee, American Politician

1794 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies

1793 Lord George Gordon, British Politician

1793 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40

1792 Henry Laurens, American Politician

1791 Duff Green, American Politician

1790 John Eaton, American Politician

1788 James Gadsden, American Politician

1788 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician

1787 Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician

1786 Davy Crockett, U.S., frontiersman/adventurer/politician, Alamo

1786 D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician

1784 Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher

1782 Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian

1782 Daniel Webster, Salisbury, New Hampshire, orator, politician, and lawyer

1780 Philip Hone, American Politician

1780 Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician

1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician

1780 John McKinley, American Politician

1779 Henry M Baron de Kock, Dutch officer/politician

1779 William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician

1778 Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician

1778 Francis Horner, politician

1777 Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, U.S. politician

1776 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician

1775 Thomas Cochrane, English Politician

1774 Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician

1774 Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68

1773 Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician

1770 Francis Burdett, British politician

1768 Maurits C van Hall, Dutch ruler of Heicop and Boeicop, lawyer/politician

1767 H Benjamin Constant, de Rebeque, French politician/writer

1765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies

1765 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 Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist

1762 Nathaniel Smith, American Politician

1760 Charles Lawrence, British Politician

1759 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician

1759 William Wilberforce, English Politician

1759 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician

1759 Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot

1758 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician

1757 Joseph Anderson, American Politician

1757 Herman H Vitringa, politician, National Meetings

1757 John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician

1756 Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician

1755 Georges Couthon, French politician

1754 Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51

1753 James McHenry, American Politician

1753 Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist

1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader

1751 Lord George Gordon, British Politician

1751 Cornelis de Gijselaar, Dutch politician/patriot

1750 Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist

1749 Charles James Fox, English Politician

1748 Daniel Smith, American Politician

1748 Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot

1748 Luther Martin, American Politician

1743 Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician

1741 John Langdon, American Politician

1740 Philip Francis, English Politician

1737 John Hancock, American Politician

1735 Hugh Williamson, American Politician

1732 Francis Atterbury, English Politician

1732 Richard Henry Lee, American Politician

1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75

1730 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician

1728 John Friend, physician/politician, dies

1727 William Samuel Johnson, American Politician

1725 Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71

1724 Henry Laurens, American Politician

1724 Peter Schuyler, English Politician

1711 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician

1709 Charles Lawrence, British Politician

1705 Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician, Chiswick

1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55

1683 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded

1663 Francis Atterbury, English Politician

1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53

1658 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 Peter Schuyler, English Politician

1656 Adolf H. van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat and politician

1654 Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat

1643 John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48

1639 Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62

1634 Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies

1631 Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies

1623 Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70

1604 Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, literature/politician, dies at 58

1601 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 Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78

1590 Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies

1581 Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52

1577 Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician

1576 Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53

1571 Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician

1569 Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50

1559 Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52

1552 Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician, defended common law

1545 Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, Dutch politician/poet

1528 Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician

1523 Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician

1518 Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician

1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31

1469 Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer, Prince

640 Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58

413 Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57


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