Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton,, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.

6 June 1919

Born on the same birth day (6 June): Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) • Andrea Cesalpino • Anthony Rendon • Arlene Harris (inventor) • Claude-Jean Allouez • David Connolly • Dwight Twilley • Frank Tyson • Isaiah Berlin • Jason Isaacs • Joseph I of Portugal • Kenny Pickett • Kirk Kerkorian • Levi Stubbs • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar • Monty Alexander • Natalie Morales (journalist) • Robert Falcon Scott • Roberto De Zerbi • Sam Simon • Sebastian Larsson • Sunil Dutt • Ted Lewis (musician) • Uncle Kracker • Willie John McBride

Born in the same month (June 1919): Amala Shankar • Antonia Mesina • Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada • George Athan Billias • Gérard Pelletier • Vladimir Simagin • Walter Babington Thomas • William Kaye Estes