Bob Simon
Robert David Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career. Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Israeli-Lebanese Conflict in 1982, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days. He published a book about the experience titled Forty Days.
29 May 1941
Born on the same birth date (29 May 1941): Doug Scott
Born on the same birth day (29 May): André Brink • Arne Friedrich • Beatrice Lillie • Bernd Mayländer • Charles W. Pickering • Clifton James • Funmi Jimoh • Harry Kadwell • Joyce Tenneson • Kevin Conway (actor) • Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton • Mel Gaynor • Ralph Metcalfe • Rudolf Tobias • Taihō Kōki
Born in the same month (May 1941): Beth Howland • Bob Dylan • Denis Hart • Dorothy Hyman • Doug Scott • Gino Brito • Goh Chok Tong • James Traficant • Jody Conradt • John Strasberg • Louis Ignarro • Miriam Margolyes • Nora Ephron • Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham • Ronald Isley • Rudolf Adler • Senta Berger • Uta Frith • William Nordhaus