Ben Bradlee

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered that its award-winning story was false.

26 August 1921

Born on the same birth date (26 August 1921): Shimshon Amitsur

Born on the same birth day (26 August): Ashford & Simpson • Aubrey Schenck • Dennis Turner • Jane Merrow • Johann Heinrich Lambert • Lee de Forest • Mattia Cassani • Sebastian Bönig • Yun Po-sun

Born in the same month (August 1921): Alan Whicker • Dinos Dimopoulos • Herb Ellis • Jack Wilson (Australian cricketer) • Sam Cook (cricketer, born 1921) • Shimshon Amitsur • Zdzisław Żygulski (art historian)