Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books. In November 2011, Last Call won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. His most recent book, published May 2019, is The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. Daniel Okrent, American journalist and author
2 April 1948
Born on the same birth date (2 April 1948): Dimitris Mitropanos • Joan D. Vinge • Roald Als
Born on the same birth day (2 April): AD 747 • Al Weis • Anis Fuleihan • Bobby Ávila • Camille Paglia • Eyal Berkovic • Hughie Jennings • Ibrahim Afellay • Mary of Jesus of Ágreda • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Nate Huffman • Paquita la del Barrio • Pascale Nadeau • Pete Incaviglia • Shaul Ladany • Tayfun Korkut • Zach Bryan
Born in the same month (April 1948): Arlette Cousture • Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone • Berry Berenson • Christopher Brown (museum director) • Dan Simmons • Drago Jančar • Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck • Jaya Bachchan • Jim Burns • Joschka Fischer • Marcello Lippi • Pekka Vasala • Phil Mogg • Reg Alcock • Régis Wargnier • Wayne Kramer (guitarist)