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): Humza Yousaf • Ian Richardson • Janar Talts • Pascal Olmeta • Ralph Flanagan • Sonjay Dutt
Born in the same month (April 1931): Bill Miles • Bridget Riley • Catherine Tizard • Felix Berezin • Igor Oistrakh • James Dickens • John Barrett (tennis) • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • John Gavin • Kishori Amonkar • Leonid Derbenyov • Malcolm Browne • Richard Hatfield • Ronald Hynd • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower)