DeForest Soaries

The Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. He is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. He was the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, a position he had held since November 1990 until his retirement from the church in June 2021.

20 August 1951

Born on the same birth date (20 August 1951): Greg Bear

Born on the same birth day (20 August): Amanda Sonia Berry • Atholl McKinnon • Bernard de Bury • Cameron Mather • Dave Brock • David Walliams • Demi Lovato • Don King • Jack Teagarden • Jamie Cullum • John H. Michaelis • Jöns Jacob Berzelius • Kirko Bangz • Nigel Dodds • Paolo Bianco • Raymond Poincaré • Sky Saxon • Ted Donaldson • Wayne Brown (footballer, born August 1977)

Born in the same month (August 1951): Ann Biderman • Bill Handel • Bobby Caldwell • Chesley V. Morton • Colin McAdam (footballer) • Daryl Somers • Edward Witten • Eric Goles • Geoff Whitehorn • Glenn Hughes (musician) • Grant Batty • Greg Bear • Marcel Dionne • Mark Hudson (musician) • Pete Mackanin • Peter Goodfellow (geneticist) • Queen Noor of Jordan • Richard Hunt (puppeteer) • Rob Halford • Robert Joy • Samantha Sang • Slim Dunlap • Steve Swisher • Tim Bachman • Wayne Osmond