Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.

29 September 1943

Born on the same birth date (29 September 1943): Juan Flores (professor)

Born on the same birth day (29 September): Billy Bevis • Carlos Watson (journalist) • Charles Court • Colin Dexter • Diana Vreeland • Doug Brochu • Douglas Frantz • Edward Pulsford • Felice Gimondi • Inika McPherson • Jill Whelan • Joseph Banks Rhine • Juan Flores (professor) • Lanza del Vasto • Mike Post • PJ Manney • Patricia Hodge • Richard J. Evans • Sebastian Coe • Silvio Berlusconi • Stephanie Klein • Trevor Howard • Trofim Lysenko • William V, Duke of Bavaria

Born in the same month (September 1943): Adelaide C. Eckardt • André Boudrias • André Caillé • Don Stroud • Dulce Saguisag • George W. S. Trow • Gordon Birtwistle • Ian Ogilvy • Irwin Goodman • Jerry Bruckheimer • Joe Morgan • Joe Simon (singer) • Juan Flores (professor) • Julio Iglesias • Leonard Peltier • Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) • Ralph Neely • Robert Gates • Robert Walden • Rosalind Ashford • Tim Schenken