Geoffrey Palmer (politician)

Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, legal academic, and former politician, who was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1990. He served as the 33rd prime minister of New Zealand for a little over a year, from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Fourth Labour Government. As minister of justice from 1984 to 1989, Palmer was responsible for considerable reforms of the country's legal and constitutional framework, such as the creation of the Constitution Act 1986, New Zealand Bill of Rights, Imperial Laws Application Act, and the State Sector Act. He served as president of the New Zealand Law Commission, from 2005 to 2010.

21 April 1942

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Alexander Anderson (illustrator) • Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts • Anthony Mason (judge) • Antonín Kammel • Charles Grodin • Dieter Roth • Hervé Le Tellier • Humphry Repton • Michael Zarnock • Princess Isabella of Denmark • Randall Thompson • Steve Backshall • Tatu Kolehmainen • Yoshito Usui

Born in the same month (April 1942): Alan Price • Anatoly Berezovoy • Bill Bryden • Billy Joe Royal • Bobby Rydell • Brandon deWilde • Dick Chrysler • Dnyaneshwar Agashe • Ian Callaghan • Jacob Zuma • Jeetendra • Jon Kyl • Robert Christgau • Stuart Dybek