Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
7 April 1931
Born on the same birth date (7 April 1931): Donald Barthelme
Born on the same birth day (7 April): Aaron Lohr • Charlie Thomas (musician) • Fay Moulton • Feza Gürsey • Gino Severini • Hitoe Arakaki • Hodding Carter III • Humza Yousaf • Ichinojō Takashi • Jakub Smrž • Jan van Roessel • John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby • Joël Robuchon • Karin Dreijer • M. Balasundaram • Martin Buß • Nicola Sala • Patrick Crayton • Ralph Flanagan • Rozalie Hirs • Stanley Adams (actor)
Born in the same month (April 1931): Abdelhamid Kermali • Bernie Brillstein • Dan Gurney • Felix Berezin • Frank Auerbach • George Baker (British actor) • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • Kishori Amonkar • Lonnie Donegan