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): Anthony Caruso (actor) • Bill Bellamy • Brian J. Doyle • Christian Fuchs • Ecaterina Andronescu • Emerson Hyndman • Francesco Selmi • Gerry Cottle • Guillaume Depardieu • Hans van Hemert • Jeetendra • Jo Appleby • John Bernard Flannagan • Josh Hader • Joël Robuchon • Kim Kap-soo • Marju Lauristin • Oshik Levi • Peter Zaremba (athlete) • Richard Gomez • Walter Winchell • William Ellery Channing • Zvika Hadar
Born in the same month (April 1931): Bridget Riley • Chris Pearson (politician) • Dan Gurney • David Shepherd (artist) • Felix Berezin • Geoffrey Dalton • Héctor Olivera (film director) • Jack Clement • Jack Le Goff • John Barrett (tennis) • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • Jon Stone • Keith Hitchins • Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower)