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Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960 in Roosevelt, New York), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1960 (age 49 years)
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel
Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Ritter von Köchel (German pronunciation: [ˈkœçl]; January 14, 1800 – June 3, 1877) was a musicologist, writer, composer, botanist and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'K...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1800
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1877 (age 77 years)
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson. Following...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1863
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 1951 (age 88 years)
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1873
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1939 (age 65 years)
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1689
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1761 (age 71 years)
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman, physician, and journalist. He served as the prime minister of France from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1841
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1929 (age 88 years)
Jack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) is an American publisher, writer and comic book artist, and has been called the most published comic book author in the world. His company, Chick Publications, claims to have sold over 750 million comic-style...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1924 (age 85 years)
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.
Nicknamed 'Supermac' and known for...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1894
Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1986 (age 92 years)
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm also...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1885
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 61 years)
Diana Mitford
Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley (née Freeman-Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003), was one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters. She was married first to Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, and secondly to Sir Oswald Mosley ("Tom"),...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 2003 (age 93 years)
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1887
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 1940 (age 52 years)
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (pronounced /ˈpʊlɨtsər/ PULL-it-sər; April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911), né Politzer József, was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism (along...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1847
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1911 (age 64 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)
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father was an attorney and his mother a school teacher. When Eggers was still a child, the family...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1970 (age 39 years)
Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948 in Stockholm) is a renowned Swedish crime writer, occasional children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most iconic creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.
Mankell was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1948 (age 61 years)
Grace Llewellyn
Grace Llewellyn is an American educator, author, and publisher. Her work in the fields of youth liberation, unschooling and homeschooling is widely-regarded. She is the founder of Lowry House Publishers and founder/director of Not Back To School...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 45 years)
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 – May 14, 1918) was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr.. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father.
Bennett was educated...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1841
Date of death:
- May 14, 1918 (age 77 years)
Vincent Astor
William Vincent Astor (November 15, 1891 – February 3, 1959) was a businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family.
Called Vincent, he was born in the Fifth Avenue mansion where his grandmother Caroline Astor reigned over...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1891
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1959 (age 67 years)
Ilia the Righteous
St. Ilia the Righteous, born Prince Ilia Chavchavadze, known as Ilia Chavchavadze (Georgian: ილია ჭავჭავაძე) (8 November [O.S. 27 October] 1837 – 12 September [O.S. 30 August] 1907) was a Georgian writer, poet, journalist and lawyer who spearheaded...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1837
Date of death:
- Aug 30, 1907 (age 69 years)
Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني, Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī) (21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1923
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1998 (age 75 years)
Harriet Adams
Harriet Adams (December 11, 1892, in Newark, New Jersey, as Harriet Stratemeyer – March 27, 1982) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career. She wrote many books in the Nancy Drew...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1892
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 1982 (age 89 years)
Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 – November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945-53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61) associated with defense and national security.
Gordon Gray was...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1909
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1982 (age 73 years)
Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen (October 22, 1943 Pennsylvania – June 28, 2006 Raleigh, North Carolina) was a noted U.S. science fiction (SF) publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1943
Date of death:
- Jun 28, 2006 (age 62 years)
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18, 1850 – June 7, 1933) was an American publisher.
Born in Portland, Maine, he was forced to leave high school after his first year when his family lost their home in the Great Fire of Portland in 1866. He held...
Date of birth:
- Jun 18, 1850
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1933 (age 83 years)
Willem Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571, Uitgeest or Alkmaar – 21 October 1638, Amsterdam), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher.
As the son of a well-to-do herring salesman, he was predestined to succeed...
Date of birth:
- 1571
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 1638 (age 67 years)
Edward Stratemeyer
Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862, in Elizabeth, New Jersey — May 10, 1930) was an American publisher and writer of books for children.
He wrote 150 books himself, and created the well-known fictional book series for juveniles including The Rover...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1862
Date of death:
- May 10, 1930 (age 67 years)
Robert B. Sherman
Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925; see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1925 (age 84 years)
Gary Ackerman
Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is an American politician, presently serving his thirteenth term in the United States House of Representatives. Ackerman represents the Fifth Congressional District of New York, encompassing the North...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1942 (age 67 years)
Steven H Silver
Steven H Silver (born April 19, 1967, Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American science fiction fan and bibliographer, publisher, and editor. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer nine times.
Silver is a longtime contributing editor...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1967 (age 42 years)
Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Ainsworth Rand Spofford (12 September 1825 – 11 August 1908) was an American journalist and publisher. He was the sixth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1864 to 1897.
Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1825
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1908 (age 82 years)
Josephine Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (31 August 1842 – 13 March 1924) was an American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor for Women’s Era, the first newspaper published by and for African American women. Her...
Date of birth:
- Aug 31, 1842
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 1924 (age 81 years)
Edward Goldsmith
Edward René David Goldsmith (November 8, 1928, Paris, France – August 21, 2009, Siena, Italy) was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher.
The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of the financier Sir James...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1928
Date of death:
- Aug 21, 2009 (age 80 years)
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (30 November 1915 – 19 November 2002) was a British publisher. He published Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, George Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene.
He was born on 30 November 1915 in Istanbul to Austrian parents. He attended an English High...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1915
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 2002 (age 87 years)
John Bassett
John White Hughes Bassett, PC, OC, O.Ont (August 25, 1915 – April 27, 1998) was a Canadian publisher and media baron.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John Bassett (1886-1958), publisher of the Montreal Gazette, and Margaret Avery. Bassett...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1915
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1998 (age 82 years)
Yuri Galanskov
Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov Russian: Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков (June 19, 1939 - November 4, 1972, Mordovia) was a Russian poet, historian, human rights activist and dissident. For his political activities, such as founding and editing samizdat...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1939
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1972 (age 33 years)
Farah Damji
Farah Damji is an author, former editor and publisher. Prior to coming into the media spotlight in 2005, for criminal acts, she wrote for mainstream and ethnic media including The Observer and The New Statesman and had a regular column in The...
Date of birth:
- Oct 9, 1966 (age 43 years)
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Henry Thurman (1902–1934) was an American novelist during the Harlem Renaissance. He is best known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, which explores discrimination among black people based on skin color.
Thurman was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1902
Date of death:
- 1934 (age 31 years)
Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins
Louis Elwood "Woody" Jenkins (born January 3, 1947) is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge, and was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000.
Jenkins was born in Baton Rouge, and attended Istrouma High School, where he...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1947 (age 62 years)
Richard Carlile
Richard Carlile (9 December 1790 – 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom.
He was born in Ashburton, Devon, the son of a shoemaker who abandoned the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1790
Date of death:
- Feb 10, 1843 (age 52 years)
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910), Polish novelist, was born near Hrodna (now Belarus), to the noble Pawłowski family. In her sixteenth year she married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman, who was exiled to Siberia after the January 1863 Uprising....
Date of birth:
- 1841
Date of death:
- 1910 (age 69 years)
James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 – 1 June 1872) was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers.
Born to a poor farmer in Newmill, Scotland, Bennett emigrated to Nova Scotia...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1795
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1872 (age 76 years)
Aenne Burda
Aenne Burda (July 28, 1909 – November 3, 2005), born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of German economic miracle.
Aenne Burda was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1909
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 2005 (age 96 years)
Gil Student
Gil Ofer Student (born August 8, 1972) is the Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, including modern...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1972 (age 37 years)
Richard Chizmar
Richard Thomas Chizmar (born 1965) is best known as the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies, writes fiction, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writing....
Date of birth:
- 1965 (age 44 years)
Gilbert Hitchcock
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (September 18, 1859 – February 3, 1934) was a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska, and the founder of the Omaha World-Herald.
Hitchcock was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of U.S. Senator Phineas Warren Hitchcock of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1859
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1934 (age 74 years)
Dominic Elwes
Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes (credited as Dominic Elwes) (b. 17 August 1931 - d. 5 September 1975) was an English portrait painter whose much publicized elopement with an heiress in 1957 was a scandale célèbre.
Elwes (pronounced "El-wez") was the son...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1931
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1975 (age 44 years)
John La Rose
John La Rose (27 December 1927 – 28 February 2006) was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, and Chairman of the George Padmore Institute. He was originally from Trinidad but was involved in the struggle for political...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1927
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 2006 (age 78 years)
Hubert Burda
Hubert Burda (born 9 February 1940, in Heidelberg) is a German art historian and publisher. Hubert Burda is CEO and owner of Hubert Burda Media, publishing more than 250 magazines inside and outside Germany (including Focus and Bunte)
Hubert Burda...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1940 (age 69 years)
Giorgi Kartvelishvili
Giorgi Kartvelishvili (Georgian: გიორგი ქართველიშვილი) (1827 – 1901) was a Georgian public figure, philanthropist, publisher and businessman.
Kartvelishvili owned a fishing and timber manufacturing enterprises in Georgia's Shida Kartli province and...
Date of birth:
- 1827
Date of death:
- 1901 (age 74 years)
Laura Sayers
Laura Margaret Sayers (born October 11, 1978) is the assistant producer of Nick Grimshaw, broadcast on BBC Radio 1.
Originally from York, England, where she was educated at The Mount School, York, Sayers later moved to Glasgow where she studied for...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1978 (age 31 years)
Robert Dunn
Robert Dunn (born 1950) is the author of four musical novels, Pink Cadillac (2001), Cutting Time (2003), Soul Cavalcade (2005), and Meet the Annas (2007). The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company, Coral Press, located...
Date of birth:
- 1950 (age 59 years)
Charles T. Beaird
Charles Thomas Beaird of Shreveport, Louisiana, was an industrialist, investor, newspaper publisher, philanthropist, philosopher, college professor, world traveler, and civic leader. He was a self-identified "liberal Republican" politician and a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1922
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 2006 (age 83 years)
John Brown Russwurm
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) was an American abolitionist from Jamaica, known for his newspaper, Freedom's Journal. He moved from the United States to govern the Maryland section of an African American colony in Liberia, dying there in 1851. In...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1799
Date of death:
- 1851 (age 51 years)
Ned Touchstone
Ned O'Neal Touchstone (September 27, 1926 -- July 26, 1988) was a newspaper publisher who was a leader of the "Radical Right" in Louisiana politics during the 1960s. He was born in the village of Florien in Sabine Parish but resided in the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1926
Date of death:
- Jul 26, 1988 (age 61 years)
Daniel Stedman
Daniel Stedman is a multi-award-winning film director, producer, writer, and co-founder and current president of The L Magazine.
Stedman received a degree in physics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He currently lives in New York City, and has...
Patsy Moore
Patsy Alexis Moore, an African American, born August 10, 1964 on the West Indian island of Antigua, is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter, as well as a poet, essayist, and educator. Raised in a devout Christian home, and an...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1964 (age 45 years)
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire, which collapsed after his death as a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1923
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1991 (age 68 years)
Alexander Liberman
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (born in Kiev September 4, 1912 - died in Miami November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé...
Date of birth:
- Sep 4, 1912
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1999 (age 87 years)
George Law Curry
George Law Curry (July 2, 1820 – July 28, 1878) was a United States political figure and newspaper publisher predominately in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he published a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, before...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1820
Date of death:
- Jul 28, 1878 (age 58 years)
Ma Ma Lei
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay Burmese: ဂျာနယ်ကျော် မမလေး; IPA: [ma̰ ma̰ léi]) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Burmese writers of 20th century. Her stories are known for authentic portrayals of modern Burmese society. Along with Ludu Daw Amar,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1917
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1982 (age 65 years)
