Margot Honecker
Margot Honecker was an East German politician and influential member of the country's Communist government until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). She was married to Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party from 1971 to 1989 and concurrently from 1976 to 1989 the country's head of state.
17 April 1927
Born on the same birth day (17 April): A. Thiagarajah • Dnyaneshwar Agashe • Laslo Babits • Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria • Nicolas Nabokov • Paul Nicholls (horse racing)
Born in the same month (April 1927): Alan MacDiarmid • Albert Uderzo • Alvin Sargent • Amos Milburn • Arne Hoel • Bill Slater (footballer) • Billy Pierce • Bud Cullen • Coretta Scott King • Ferenc Puskás • Joe Moakley • Josy Barthel • Kenneth Tynan • Laurel Aitken • Leonid Shcherbakov • Maurice Ronet • Rosemary Haughton • Samuel P. Huntington • Thomas Hemsley • Tilly Armstrong • Tiny Hill (rugby union) • Walter Bahr