Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Secretary of State of California in 1970; Brown later served as Mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007 and Attorney General of California from 2007 to 2011. He was both the oldest and sixth-youngest governor of California due to the 28-year gap between his second and third terms. Upon completing his fourth term in office, Brown became the fourth longest-serving governor in U.S. history, serving 16 years and 5 days in office.

7 April 1938

Born on the same birth date (7 April 1938): Iris Johansen • Spencer Dryden

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Billie Holiday • Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou • Ed Lafitte • Hans van Hemert • Janar Talts • Marjory Stoneman Douglas • Michel Adanson • Mick Abrahams • Tama Canning

Born in the same month (April 1938): Alain Caron (ice hockey) • Booker Little • Don Meredith • Giorgos Sideris • Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician) • Issey Miyake • Jeff Barry • John Hamm • Kerry Wendell Thornley • Mary W. Gray • Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs • Michael Deaver • Phil Rodgers • Steven Bach