Thanks to a generation of ultra-low fertility, the last western European country with a prime minister born before the second world war now has the world's second oldest population.

David Huddleston is a best-selling Christian author and minister born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on October 15, 1943.

Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the establishment of the state.

Here, in full, is the obituary which Adam Martindale, a Presbyterian minister born in 1623, wrote for his seventh child.

Georg Burchard Jersin (1767 - 1827) was a Norwegian minister and politician, born in Leikanger.

Antoine Achard (1696-1772) was a Swiss Protestant minister born in Geneva.

William Bell (20 May 1780 - 16 August 1857) was a Presbyterian minister, born in Scotland and an immigrant to Upper Canada.

He was a minister born in England.

Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was a white Presbyterian minister and civil right activist, born in Oregon.

Gillard is the first prime minister not born in Australia since Billy Hughes, who served from 1915 to 1923.