Roland Burris

Roland Wallace Burris is an American retired Democratic politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In January 2009, he was appointed a United States Senator, succeeding Barack Obama, who resigned to become president of the United States. Burris held this position until November 2010, retiring from front-line politics shortly after.

3 August 1937

Born on the same birth date (3 August 1937): Duncan Sharpe • Steven Berkoff

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Argyro Strataki • Bodo Rudwaleit • Brent Kutzle • David Knox (rugby union) • Dominic Moore • Frano Botica • Gamze Bulut • Jean-Pierre Raffarin • Joseph Paxton • Lucky Dube • Reginald Heber Roe • Richard Adler • Rod Beck • Rona Anderson • Sam Hutchinson • Sonny Bill Williams • Stanley Baldwin • Todd Christensen • Vernon Louis Parrington • Étienne Dolet

Born in the same month (August 1937): Andrei Konchalovsky • Barbara Windsor • Billy Cannon • Bobby Parker (guitarist) • Boris Rõtov • Bruce McLaren • Charlie Haden • David Behrman • Dustin Hoffman • María Duval • Sky Saxon • Steven Berkoff • Susan Sheehan • Tommy Sands • Virginia Euwer Wolff • Warren Berlinger • William Motzing