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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (pronounced /ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1884
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1962 (age 78 years)
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror and suspense fiction; he has also written sci-fi and fantasy novels. More than 350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1947 (age 62 years)
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams, (born 1936 in Philadelphia) is the John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.
Wlliams holds a bachelor's degree in...
Date of birth:
- 1936 (age 74 years)
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1902
Date of death:
- May 22, 1967 (age 65 years)
Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus "Pim" Fortuyn (Dutch pronunciation: [pɪm fɔʁtœʏn], (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002) was a Dutch politician, author, columnist, public servant, sociologist and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1948
Date of death:
- May 6, 2002 (age 54 years)
Ann Landers
Ruth Crowley and Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer (July 4, 1918 - June 22, 2002) were the main writers behind the pseudonymous syndicated advice column Ask Ann Landers. For about 45 years, the column was a regular feature in many newspapers...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1918
Date of death:
- Jun 22, 2002 (age 84 years)
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1920
Date of death:
- Mar 9, 1994 (age 73 years)
Jeffrey Simpson
Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC (born 1949 in New York City, New York), is an influential Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he has been The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the...
Date of birth:
- 1949 (age 61 years)
Mark Thomas
Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April 1963) is an English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s....
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1963 (age 46 years)
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Representative and WWII veteran Will Rogers, Jr....
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1879
Date of death:
- Aug 15, 1935 (age 55 years)
David Brooks
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is an American political and cultural commentator. He is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000). Brooks served as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1961 (age 48 years)
Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, Marshall Scholar and multi Pulitzer Prize winning author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly. He has written...
Date of birth:
- Jul 20, 1953 (age 56 years)
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1943 (age 66 years)
Bill O'Reilly
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1949 (age 60 years)
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1930 (age 79 years)
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1923
Date of death:
- Nov 10, 2007 (age 84 years)
William Kristol
William Kristol (born December 23, 1952) is an American neoconservative political analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard, a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, and a former op-ed...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1952 (age 57 years)
Ann Coulter
Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Well-known for her conservative...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1961 (age 48 years)
Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie (अरूण शौरी) (born November 2, 1941) is an Indian journalist, author, intellectual and politician. He has been an economist with the World Bank (1968-72 and 1975-77), a consultant to the Planning Commission, India, editor of the Indian...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1941 (age 68 years)
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC(Can.), OC, KCSG (born 25 August 1944, Montreal, Quebec) is a historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world. He is currently incarcerated at...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1944 (age 65 years)
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (born 23 December 1971) also known as T P-T, is an English socialite, "it girl", television presenter, columnist and model.
Her parents are Charles and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson (née Dawson). Palmer-Tomkinson's father has...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1971 (age 38 years)
Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਚਰਨ ਦਾਸ, Hindi: गुरचरण दास), (born June 9, 1946), is an Indian author, consultant and public intellectual. He is a columnist for The Times of India and other newspapers. Currently he is a venture capitalist and a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1946 (age 63 years)
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington (born Arianna Stassinopoulos, 15 July 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the liberal news website The Huffington Post.
In 2003 she ran as an independent candidate for...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1950 (age 59 years)
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1952 (age 58 years)
Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (pronounced /ˈkruːɡmən/; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, columnist and author. He is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1953 (age 56 years)
Robert Novak
Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was a syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. Born to working class Ukrainian/Lithuanian secular Jews in Joliet,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1931
Date of death:
- Aug 18, 2009 (age 78 years)
Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist.
Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Nellie and Isidore Cohen, who was an accountant. He was raised in Brooklyn, New...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1918
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 1995 (age 77 years)
Michael Wilbon
Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. He is a columnist for The Washington Post, serves as an analyst for ESPN and has co-hosted Pardon the Interruption on ESPN with former Post scribe Tony...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1958 (age 51 years)
Aimee Osbourne
Aimee Rachel Osbourne (born 2 September 1983) is an English singer, actress and columnist. She is the oldest child of singer Ozzy Osbourne and the first child to Ozzy's second wife Sharon. Unlike her full-siblings Jack and Kelly, she chose not to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1983 (age 26 years)
George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1963 (age 46 years)
Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is widely...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1959 (age 50 years)
Kerry Katona
Kerry Jane Elizabeth Katona (born 6 September 1980) is an English media personality. She is most known for her television work (predominantly in television commercials and reality shows) and for being a magazine columnist. She has also acted,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1980 (age 29 years)
Tony Kornheiser
Anthony Irwin "Tony" Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and former columnist for The Washington Post, as well as a radio and television talk show host. Kornheiser has hosted The Tony Kornheiser Show on radio in various forms...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1948 (age 61 years)
Dom Joly
Dominic John "Dom" Joly (pronounced [ˈdʒɒli]; born 15 November 1968) is a British television comedian and journalist. He came to note as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide. Since then...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1968 (age 41 years)
Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih or Al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: الطيّب صالح) (1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer. Born in the Northern Province of Sudan, he studied at the University of Khartoum before leaving for the University of London in England. Coming...
Date of birth:
- 1929
Date of death:
- Feb 18, 2009 (age 80 years)
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative commentator, blogger and author. Her weekly, syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites nationwide. She has been a guest on MSNBC, Fox News...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1970 (age 39 years)
Richard and Judy
Richard Madeley and Judith 'Judy' Finnigan are married television presenters. Since their marriage, their television appearances have been largely made as a couple, though each has had the occasional solo project. Madeley recently fronted the ITV...
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August, 1962, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a Bengali Bangladeshi ex-doctor turned author who has been living in exile since 1994. From a modest literary profile in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1962 (age 47 years)
John Waters
John Waters (born Castlerea, Co.Roscommon, Rep. of Ireland in 1955) is a columnist with The Irish Times and former editor of Magill magazine. His journalistic career began in 1981 with the leading Irish political-music magazine Hot Press. He went on...
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn (born 1959) is a Canadian writer, political commentator and cultural critic. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller. He is published in newspapers and magazines,...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
Christie Blatchford
Christie Blatchford (born May 20, 1951) is a Canadian newspaper columnist and broadcaster.
Blatchford was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, and attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute. She went on to study journalism at Ryerson University in...
Date of birth:
- May 20, 1951 (age 58 years)
Woody Paige
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Paige, Jr. (born June 27, 1946, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a sports columnist for The Denver Post, author, and a regular panelist on the ESPN sports-talk program Around the Horn. He was also a co-host of Cold Pizza and its spin...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1946 (age 63 years)
Judy Baar Topinka
Judy Baar Topinka (born January 16, 1944) is the former Illinois State Treasurer, having served from 1995 to 2007, and former chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party. She was the first woman to become state treasurer, first to be elected to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1944 (age 66 years)
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons, born in Peats Ridge, New South Wales, 29 June, 1961, is a former Wallabies rugby union player. He now works as a journalist, author and radio presenter. He is the current Patron of AFS Intercultural Programs (a student exchange...
Date of birth:
- 1961 (age 49 years)
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news correspondent and commentator for the Fox News Channel. He is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute.
He formerly co-hosted CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Tucker.
Tucker...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1969 (age 40 years)
Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Kim Albrechtsen (born 23 September 1966) is a right-wing Australian opinion columnist, social commentator and conservative pundit with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1966 (age 43 years)
Amir Butler
Amir Butler is an author and engineer, as well as the executive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC), co-convenor of the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network (AMCRAN) and frequent media commentator on social...
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1916
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1997 (age 80 years)
Simon Carmiggelt
Simon Carmiggelt (October 7, 1913 – November 30, 1987) was a Dutch writer who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.
Simon Johannes Carmiggelt was born on 7 October...
Date of birth:
- Oct 7, 1913
Date of death:
- Nov 30, 1987 (age 74 years)
Rona Ambrose
Ronalee "Rona" Ambrose, PC, MP (born March 15, 1969) is the Minister of Labour, as well as the Vice-Chair of the Treasury Board Cabinet committee.
In the previous Parliament, she was Canada's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1969 (age 40 years)
Victoria Gotti
Victoria Gotti (born November 27, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York) is a writer, reality television participant and daughter of the late Gambino crime family Mafia boss, John Gotti((a.k.a. "The Dapper Don" or "The Teflon Don"))
Victoria was born in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 27, 1962 (age 47 years)
Tina Brown
Tina Brown (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, United Kingdom) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, a personal friend....
Date of birth:
- Nov 21, 1953 (age 56 years)
Anna Quindlen
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1952 (age 57 years)
David S. Broder
David Salzer Broder (born September 11, 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit, and university professor. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Currently, he writes a twice-a-week political column for...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1929 (age 80 years)
Keith Jackson
Keith Jackson (born October 18, 1928) is an American former sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports television (40 years - 1966-2006), his coverage of college football (54 years - 1952-2006) as well as his style of folksy, down-to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1928 (age 81 years)
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (born September 11, 1971), often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos" (kōz), is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics. He is also a weekly...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1971 (age 38 years)
Gerard Henderson
Gerard Henderson is an Australian newspaper columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The West Australian. He is also Executive Director of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded current affairs forum. His wife Anne Henderson is Deputy Director....
Cristina Scabbia
Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (Italian pronunciation: [kɾisˈtiːna adɾiˈaːna kiˈaːɾa ˈskabːja]; born 6 June 1972) is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists in the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. She also writes an advice...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1972 (age 37 years)
George Ade
George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.
Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, one of seven children raised by John and Adaline (Bush) Ade. While attending Purdue University, he became a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1866
Date of death:
- May 16, 1944 (age 78 years)
Jan Wong
Jan Wong (Chinese: 黃明珍; pinyin: Huáng Míngzhēn; born 1953 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist of Chinese ancestry. Wong worked for The Globe and Mail, serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
