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): Andrew McLeod • Andy Smillie • David Bedford • Frances Allen • Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford • Jake Beckley • Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist) • Klaus Schulze • Marcos (footballer, born 1973) • N. Rangaswamy • Silvan Shalom • Ted Strickland • Tomoya Warabino • William Schuman • Witold Gombrowicz
Born in the same month (August 1899): Albert Claude • Andrei Platonov • C. S. Forester • Charles Boyer • James Wong Howe • Jorge Luis Borges • Louis Chiron • P. L. Travers • Raymond Mays