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): Brett Whiteley • Henry Kuttner • Jan van Roessel • Josh Hader • Peter Fluck • Ronde Barber • Tama Canning • Thelma Walker • Walter Camp • Wayne Rogers
Born in the same month (April 1931): Geoffrey Dalton • George Baker (British actor) • James Dickens • John Barrett (tennis) • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • Lewis Jones (rugby, born 1931) • Morgan Wootten • Paul Masnick • Robert Enrico • Ronald Hynd • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower)