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): Audrey Tautou • Brett Hull • Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton • Joe Mercer • Jun.Q • Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo • Prince Augustus William of Prussia • Ravshan Irmatov • Troy Percival • Tyson Gay • Vinny Del Negro • Wesley Sonck

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ahmed Kathrada • Ann Calvello • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Dick Tiger • George Scott (wrestler) • Ira Levin • István Kertész (conductor) • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Kishore Kumar • Larisa Bogoraz • Leila Abashidze • Luis García Meza • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Pat Harrington Jr. • Peter Thomson (golfer) • Roch La Salle • Roy Crimmins • Thom Gunn • Ulrich Wegener • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vera Miles • Vidya Charan Shukla • Zoltán Czibor