Joaquín Lavín

Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes, in the northeastern zone of Santiago. Formerly Lavín has also been mayor of Santiago, Minister of Education and Minister of Social Development. He ran for president twice in 1999 and 2005, losing both times. In 2021 he tried to run again, but this time he was defeated in a primary election by Sebastián Sichel. Besides his political involvement Lavín has been active in education in the University for Development, of which he was one of the founders and original owners, and as editor of the economics section in El Mercurio.

23 October 1953

Born on the same birth date (23 October 1953): Pauline Black • Taner Akçam

Born on the same birth day (23 October): Andoni Zubizarreta • Carlos Lemos Simmonds • Daniela Alvarado • Dezső Gyarmati • Gianni Rodari • Gilbert N. Lewis • Graça Machel • Hilario Abellana • Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington • Jessicka • Miklós Németh (javelin thrower) • Moritz Kaposi • Phillip Gillespie • Rickey Paulding • Wayne Rainey • Zoe Wiseman

Born in the same month (October 1953): Andreas Vollenweider • Charles Martin Smith • Charlotte Caffey • Christoph Daum • Daniele Bagnoli • Denis Potvin • Domenico Penzo • Fiona Rae • Greg Evigan • Gus Williams (basketball) • Hank Pfister • Kazumi Watanabe • Larry Miller (comedian) • Philip Hampton • Richard McWilliam • Robert Saxton • Roy Laidlaw • Taner Akçam • Tim Hely Hutchinson • Tito Jackson