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): Alexa Bliss • Brad Gilbert • Eino Kaila • Evelina Haverfield • J. James Exon • Juanes • Louis Lipps • Otto Rehhagel • Ravshan Irmatov • Rinus Gerritsen • Robbie Middleby • Ted Simmons

Born in the same month (August 1929): Bill Evans • David Waddington • George Scott (wrestler) • Hafizullah Amin • Helmut Rahn • Herman Badillo • Hugues Aufray • Ion N. Petrovici • Ira Levin • Pat Harrington Jr. • Peter Thomson (golfer) • Ronnie Biggs • Ulrich Wegener • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vera Miles • Vidya Charan Shukla • Vladimir Beekman