Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd vice president of the United States.

5 February 1900

Born on the same birth day (5 February): Brian Luckhurst • Dirk Stikker • Elizabeth Ryan • Fred Sinowatz • Hiram Maxim • John Boyd Dunlop • John II, Marquis of Montferrat • John Witherspoon • Jonathan Freeman (actor) • Larry Hillman • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné • Recep Peker • Sara Evans • Stefan de Vrij • Tage Danielsson • Wang Xuan (computer scientist) • William S. Burroughs

Born in the same month (February 1900): Barbara von Annenkoff • Ellen Broe • Fritz Wiessner • Halina Konopacka • Hans-Georg Gadamer • Irmgard Bartenieff • Jacques Prévert • Jeanne Aubert • Jessica Dragonette • Jōsei Toda • Luis Buñuel • Mabel Mercer • Roger J. Traynor • Ruth Clifford • Willie Kamm