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): Albert Seedman • Brad Gilbert • Brice Roger • Daniel Keyes • Deion Sanders • Dolores Wilson • Francesco Barozzi • Frank Martínez (artist) • Hansika Motwani • Ime Udoka • Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein • Kermit Beahan • Kevin Mack • King Von • Li Jiawei • Lisa Nandy • Mahesh Babu • Patrick Depailler • Robert Shaw (actor) • Willian (footballer, born 1988) • Yekaterina Samutsevich

Born in the same month (August 1929): Ann Calvello • Betty Dodson • Bill Evans • Don Larsen • Don Matheson • Fritz Von Erich • Giacomo Capuzzi • Guy de Lussigny • Helmut Rahn • Ira Levin • John Gale (theatre producer) • Larisa Bogoraz • Leila Abashidze • Luis García Meza • Reuben Kamanga • Roxie Roker • Ulrich Wegener • Vera Miles • Zoltán Czibor