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): Adam von Trott zu Solz • Alexa Bliss • Beverlee McKinsey • David Steinberg • Dorin Chirtoacă • Hansika Motwani • Ime Udoka • Jonathan Kellerman • Juanes • Ken Norton • Kento Ono • Luca Filippi • Raphaël Poirée • Steve Swisher • Stuart McInally

Born in the same month (August 1929): Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Giacomo Capuzzi • Herman Badillo • Ion N. Petrovici • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Ronnie Biggs • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vellore G. Ramabhadran