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): Adam Fleming (journalist) • Bill Romanowski • Diana Shnaider • Don Sutton • G. Spencer-Brown • György Konrád • John Larsson • Lennart Fagerlund • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Pascal Siakam • Prince George of Denmark • Rudra Rajasingham

Born in the same month (April 1948): Carlos Salinas de Gortari • Christos Iakovou • Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck • Jeremy Beadle • Jim Burns • Matthias Kuhle • Mel Blount • Pascal Quignard • Pierre Pagé • Richard Parsons (businessman)