Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The 2nd Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.

3 April 1925

Born on the same birth day (3 April): Arturo Prat • Bernie Parent • Chanel Harris-Tavita • Don Gibson • Doris Day • Herb Caen • Jan and Dean • Jimmy McGriff • John III of Egmont • Jonathan Lynn • Kodi Nikorima • Marcus Brown • Martyn Rooney • Nicholas Jones (actor) • Peter Colman • Philippe Desranleau • Sandrine Testud • Simone Benedetti • Ted Hook

Born in the same month (April 1925): Chaturanan Mishra • Claude Wagner • Corinne Calvet • Derek Chinnery • Elena Verdugo • Evelyn Berezin • Franco Leccese • Gerard Cafesjian • Hans Rosenthal • Jan van Roessel • Janet Rowley • John Compton • John Swinton of Kimmerghame • John Thorn (headmaster) • Johnny Horton • Ned Miller • Pierre Nihant • René Moawad • Sammy Drechsel • T. John Lesinski • Vladimir Boltyansky • Yuriy Lituyev