Dan Walker (politician)

Daniel J. Walker was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic party, he served as the 36th governor of Illinois, from 1973 until 1977. Born in Washington, D.C., Walker was raised in San Diego, before serving in the Navy as an enlisted man and officer during World War II and the Korean War. He moved to Illinois between the wars to attend Northwestern University School of Law, entering politics in the state during the 1960s.

6 August 1922

Born on the same birth date (6 August 1922): Freddie Laker

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Charles Wood (playwright) • Freddie Laker • Jaime Correa (footballer) • Jesse Ryder • János Rózsás • Leo Carrillo • Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954) • Martin Wharton • Norman Gordon • Norman Granz • Octavio Getino • Pat MacDonald (musician) • Wallace H. White • William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Born in the same month (August 1922): Al Alberts • Arthur Anderson (actor) • Arthur Hill (Canadian actor) • Chuck Gilmur • Ernie Freeman • Freddie Laker • George Kell • Giorgos Mouzakis • Irving R. Levine • James Casey (variety artist) • John Edward Williams • John Eisenhower • John Miles (baseball) • L. Tom Perry • Lionel Murphy • Luis Aponte Martínez • Mayme Agnew Clayton • Regina Resnik • René Lévesque • Roelof Kruisinga • Roy Tattersall • Rudi Gernreich • Theoni V. Aldredge