Joel Barnett

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, was a Labour Party politician. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the late 1970s, he devised the Barnett Formula that allocates public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

14 October 1923

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alicja Dorabialska • Ariela Barer • Ernest Günther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg • George Floyd • Jana Macurová • Joe Start • Joey Travolta • Mikhail Pervukhin • Robert Parker (singer) • Skyler Shaye

Born in the same month (October 1923): Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923) • Bobby Thomson • Charles McClendon • Charlton Heston • Edward Oliver LeBlanc • Eugene Patterson • Faas Wilkes • Frank Sutton • Gloria Oden • Goody Petronelli • Jessie Mae Hemphill • John C. Champion • John Connell (actor) • Kailashpati Mishra • Louis Gottlieb • Ned Rorem • Nicholas Parsons • Robert Hinde • Robert Kuok • Robin Day • Ruth Carter Stevenson • Samuel Khachikian • Stig Dagerman • Yaşar Kemal