Gareth Evans (politician)

Gareth John Evans AC, KC, is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.

5 September 1944

Born on the same birth date (5 September 1944): Dario Bellezza

Born on the same birth day (5 September): Dave Dryden • Debbie Turner • Dennis Dugan • Dulce Saguisag • Franco Costanzo • George Tremlett • Jack Valenti • Jacopo Zabarella • Johann Christian Bach • John Shortland • Josué de Castro • Joyce Hatto • Juan Alderete • Leonardo Araújo • Magnus, Duke of Holstein • Nap Lajoie • Paul Josef Cordes • Paul Volcker • Pedro E. Guerrero • Peter Winnen • Richairo Živković • Tommaso Campanella • Willie Gault

Born in the same month (September 1944): Bobby Tench • Grayson Shillingford • Günter Netzer • Jacqueline Bisset • Jan Brewer • Janet Simpson • Michael Franks (musician) • Paul Madeley • Peter Larter • Ray Groom • Reinhold Messner • Steve Beshear