Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, government official, and religious leader who served as the 15th United States secretary of agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death in 1994.
4 August 1899
Born on the same birth day (4 August): Albert M. Greenfield • Andy Hallett • Barbara Saß-Viehweger • Gábor Demszky • Jeremy Adduono • Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist) • John August • John Scaddan • José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero • Keith Ellison • Lucrezia de' Medici (1470–1553) • Marques Houston • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Silvan Shalom • Thomas Blackwell (scholar) • Timi Yuro • Vilhelm Dahlerup
Born in the same month (August 1899): Albert Claude • Alfred Hitchcock • Andrei Platonov • Charles Boyer • James Wong Howe • Jorge Luis Borges • José Ramón Guizado • Louis Chiron • Raymond Mays