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): Adrián Beltré • Allen Dulles • Andrew Sachs • Chaturanan Mishra • Dennis Hayden (actor) • Franco Di Santo • Guillaume Depardieu • Henry Kuttner • Jo Appleby • Johannes Mario Simmel • Sonjay Dutt • Stan Winston • Thurl Bailey • Walter Winchell
Born in the same month (April 1931): Bobby Ray Inman • Dan Gurney • Donald Barthelme • Geoffrey Dalton • Kishori Amonkar • Leonid Derbenyov • Lonnie Donegan • Paul Almond • Ram Dass • Rolf Hochhuth • Ronald Hynd • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower) • William Bast