Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank

William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,, is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979, and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.

28 October 1928

Born on the same birth date (28 October 1928): Ion Mihai Pacepa

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Alan Smith (footballer, born 1980) • Bernie Ecclestone • Bill Gates • Edward P. Allen • Gary Cowan • Joe Adams (baseball) • Joe Thomas (actor) • John Gage (Tudor politician) • Juliette Béliveau • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Maria Anna of Neuburg • Richard Doll • Sheryl Underwood • Steven Chamuleau

Born in the same month (October 1928): Ann Morgan Guilbert • Barbara Werle • Didi (footballer, born 1928) • Domna Samiou • George Peppard • Gilles Vigneault • Ion Mihai Pacepa • Laurence Harvey • Maurice El Médiouni • Shridath Ramphal • Torben Ulrich • Vern Mikkelsen