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): Alfred Deakin • Aron Stevens • David Knox (rugby union) • Dolores del Río • Ernie Pyle • Galeotto I Pico • Gesa Felicitas Krause • Habib Bourguiba • Jay Cutler (bodybuilder) • Larry Haines • Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) • Linda Howard • Lucky Dube • Mariusz Jop • Martin Atkins • Mike Gminski • Shakeel Badayuni • Tasmin Archer • Thomas Francis Meagher • Yurina Kumai

Born in the same month (August 1946): Aleksei Turovski • Ann Coffey • Antonio Fargas • Bob McCarthy • Boz Burrell • Bruce Coslet • Charlie Sanders • Fiona Stanley • Henryk M. Broder • Janet Yellen • Jerome Corsi • John York (musician) • Keith Moon • Larry Graham • Masoud Barzani • Mufaddal Saifuddin • Queen Anne-Marie of Greece • Ralf Hütter • Richard O. Covey • Rick Coonce • Rick van der Linden