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): Allan Holdsworth • Catherine Hicks • Cecil Howard Green • Charles Fort • Daniel O'Connell • Fakhr al-Din II • Henry Iba • Howard Hodgkin • John Graves (author) • Luis Vizcaíno • Paul Bartel • Pauline Betz • Raphael Pyrasch

Born in the same month (August 1922): Alain Robbe-Grillet • Chuck Gilmur • Freddie Laker • Fulton Mackay • Gertrude Himmelfarb • Jean Darling • John Edward Williams • Kelly Freas • Nazik Al-Malaika • Regina Resnik • René Lévesque • Roelof Kruisinga • Sabino Barinaga