Jack Straw

John Whitaker Straw is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015.

3 August 1946

Born on the same birth date (3 August 1946): John York (musician) • Robert Ayling • Syreeta Wright

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Aron Stevens • Denny Cardin • Diāna Marcinkēviča • Ernesto Samper • Frederick William III of Prussia • Hamilton Fish • Ian Bairnson • Jerry G. Bishop • Jo Marie Payton • Kang Min-kyung • Leon Uris • Marv Levy • Nick Harvey • Sven Ulreich • Thomas Francis Meagher • Yasin Avcı (footballer, born 1984)

Born in the same month (August 1946): Bob McCarthy • Demetris Christofias • James Howe • Jerome Corsi • Joe Bethancourt • Larry Graham • Lesley Ann Warren • Mufaddal Saifuddin • Patrick Manning • Rick van der Linden • Syreeta Wright • Tom Coughlin