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Births on March 22

1914Mar, 22

Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes

Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman (d. 2008)
Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes (22 March 1914 – 21 July 2008) was an English industrialist. He was the head of British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BL) from 1968 to 1975.

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