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): Bud Fisher • Daniel Hoffman • Fazlur Rahman Khan • George of Trebizond • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer • Maria de' Medici (1540–1557) • Washington Irving • William Bast

Born in the same month (April 1925): Anthony Mason (judge) • Dettmar Cramer • Emmett Williams • Evelyn Berezin • Franco Leccese • Frank Truitt • George MacDonald Fraser • Hans Rosenthal • Hugh O'Brian • John Swinton of Kimmerghame • Johnny Horton • Louis O'Neill (politician) • Michele Ferrero • Pierre Nihant • Pierre Péladeau • René Moawad • Rod Steiger • T. John Lesinski • Viktor Masing • Yuriy Lituyev