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): Alan Lee (footballer) • B. J. Upton • Joe Strummer • John Claypole • Leonid Hurwicz • Nigel Pearson • Patrick Demarchelier • Reuven Feuerstein

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • Bill Evans • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Buck Owens • Don Matheson • Giacomo Capuzzi • Guy de Lussigny • Hafizullah Amin • Ira Levin • István Kertész (conductor) • John Gale (theatre producer) • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Luis García Meza • Ronnie Biggs • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vladimir Beekman