George Canning

George Canning was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827.

11 April 1770

Born on the same birth day (11 April): David Westheimer • Johanna Elberskirchen • John Douglas (English architect) • Leland Irving • Lokesh Chandra • Malcolm Christie • Michael Deaver • Nobuaki Kakuda • Richard Wainwright (politician) • Robert Stanfield • Ron Pember • Sergei Lukyanenko • Stefanos Thomopoulos • Yuriy Lituyev • Zahid Maleque

Born in the same month (April 1770): David Thompson (explorer) • Georg Sverdrup • John Thomas Campbell • Theodoros Kolokotronis • Thomas Johann Seebeck • William Wordsworth