Abdi İpekçi

Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.

9 August 1929

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Brett Hull • D'Arcy Short • Ernest Angley • Filippo Inzaghi • Gillian Anderson • Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia • Jean Piaget • Milt Bolling • Rod Brind'Amour • Vasilios Koutsianikoulis

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • Bill Evans • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Buck Owens • David Waddington • Don Matheson • George Scott (wrestler) • Hugues Aufray • Ian McNaught-Davis • Ion N. Petrovici • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Kishore Kumar • Larisa Bogoraz • Luis García Meza • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Reuben Kamanga • Roch La Salle • Roy Crimmins • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vidya Charan Shukla • Vladimir Beekman • Zoltán Czibor