Basil A. Paterson

Basil Alexander Paterson was an American labor lawyer and politician. He served in the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1971 and as secretary of state of New York under Governor Hugh Carey from 1979 to 1983. In 1970, Paterson was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Arthur Goldberg ticket. Paterson's son David served as governor from 2008 to 2011.

27 April 1926

Born on the same birth date (27 April 1926): Alan Reynolds (artist) • Tim LaHaye

Born on the same birth day (27 April): Alain Caron (ice hockey) • August Koern • Cecil Day-Lewis • Corey Seager • Derek Minter • Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti • Erik Thomson • Frank Bainimarama • G. K. Butterfield • George Gervin • Jessie R. Fauset • Marc-Antoine Parseval • Mary Wollstonecraft • Nick Greiner • Nina Ponomaryova • Otto, King of Bavaria • Robert Dhéry • Wallace Carothers • Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Born in the same month (April 1926): Arthur Rowley • Barbara Anderson (writer) • Cloris Leachman • David Manker Abshire • Elmer Kelton • Frank Daniel • Harper Lee • Henry N. Cobb • Hugh Hefner • Hulusi Sayın • Jack Brabham • James Bama • Jane Withers • John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough • Junior Samples • Jürgen Moltmann • Karl Rebane • Patricia Castell • Pierre Fabre (businessman) • Ronnie Masterson • Sergio Franchi