Carl Stokes

Carl Burton Stokes was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was one of the first black elected mayors of a major U.S. city.

21 June 1927

Born on the same birth day (21 June): Aleksandr Tvardovsky • Allyssa DeHaan • Arnold Gesell • Byron Schammer • Eric Reed (musician) • Garrett Jones • Georges-Henri Bousquet • Heinrich Wölfflin • Julio Ruelas • Kathy Mattea • Kip Winger • Maureen Stapleton • Mike Einziger • Shōhei Takada • Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie • William Vickrey

Born in the same month (June 1927): Bob Keeshan • Claudio Gilberto Froehlich • Eva Bartok • Geoffrey Palmer (actor) • Hugo Pratt • Ibn-e-Insha • Jerry Stiller • Jim Nolan (basketball) • John Habgood • John W. O'Malley • Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927) • Kit Pedler • Luciano Benjamín Menéndez • Mario Lanfranchi • Paul Salamunovich • Slim Dusty • Tom Graveney