Flora MacDonald (politician)

Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Canadian political party, the Progressive Conservatives. She became a close ally of Prime Minister Joe Clark, serving in his cabinet from 1979 to 1980, as well as in the cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1988. In her later life, she was known for her humanitarian work abroad. Jimmy Carter has said that 90% of the contribution to freeing American hostages in Iran should be attributed to her and Kenneth D. Taylor. The City of Ottawa recognised MacDonald on July 11, 2018, by naming a new bicycle and footbridge over the Rideau Canal the Passerelle Flora Footbridge.

3 June 1926

Born on the same birth date (3 June 1926): Allen Ginsberg

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Adelaide Ames • Boots Randolph • Dean Pay • Ellen Corby • Françoise Arnoul • Igor Shafarevich • James Hutton • Leo Picard • Manfred Mölgg • Mikhail Larionov • Torsten Wiesel

Born in the same month (June 1926): Allan Sandage • Allen Ginsberg • Annette Mbaye d'Erneville • Calvin "Fuzz" Jones • Dinu Zamfirescu • Efraín Ríos Montt • George Booth (cartoonist) • George Robb (footballer) • Ingeborg Bachmann • Judith Malina • Jérôme Lejeune • Klaus Tennstedt • Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior • Lionel Jeffries • Mahendra Bhatnagar • Paul Berg • Paul Soros • Philip B. Crosby • Robert Ledley • Stig Sollander