Jim Cairns

James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister of Australia, both in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia after his retirement.

4 October 1914

Born on the same birth date (4 October 1914): Brendan Gill

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Caitríona Balfe • Christoph Waltz • Chuck Hagel • Donald J. Sobol • Ivan Mauger • John Ellis (executioner) • John Vincent Atanasoff • Lesley Glaister • Lucy Tayiah Eads • Léon Serpollet • Michael Mullen • Mikolas Josef • Raymond Watson • Razor Smith • Russell Simmons • Sam Huff • Vicky Krieps • Violeta Parra • Yngve Moe

Born in the same month (October 1914): Brendan Gill • Edward Andrews • Glenn Robert Davis • Harry Brecheen • Herman Keiser • Jackie Coogan • Joan Littlewood • John E. Hodge • Jonas Salk • Maxim of Bulgaria • Raymond Davis Jr. • Richard Laurence Millington Synge • Tommy Fine