Herman Badillo

Herman Badillo was an American lawyer and politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican elected to these posts, and the first Puerto Rican mayoral candidate in a major city in the continental United States.

21 August 1929

Born on the same birth date (21 August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • X. J. Kennedy

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Bruce Anstey • Charles Barrois • Charles Frédéric Gerhardt • DeWanna Bonner • Leandro Bacuna • Mike Evans (wide receiver) • RJ Mitte • Roger Twysden

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • Don Larsen • Francis Gary Powers • Fritz Von Erich • Giacomo Capuzzi • Helmut Rahn • Ira Levin • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Larisa Bogoraz • Luis García Meza • Ronnie Biggs • Thom Gunn • Ulrich Wegener • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vidya Charan Shukla • Vladimir Beekman