David Halberstam

David Halberstam was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007, while doing research for a book.

10 April 1934

Born on the same birth day (10 April): Alexei Semenov (ice hockey) • Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick • Carole Goble • David Harbour • David Moorcroft • Eddie Hazel • Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus • Fernando Gago • Gloria Hunniford • Johnny Hayes • Kevin Berry • Maurice Schumann • Max von Sydow • Metin Göktepe • Mike Hawthorn • Narayan Rane • Pavlos Fyssas • Prafulla Chandra Sen • Steven Seagal • Warren DeMartini • William Hazlitt • Willo Flood

Born in the same month (April 1934): Bill Birch • Brian Glover • Carl Kasell • Dovid Shmidel • Enrique Álvarez Félix • Fredric Jameson • George Shirley • Heinz Schneiter • Helen Hanft • Jane Goodall • Jayakanthan • Jim Parker (American football) • John Carey (critic) • Kisho Kurokawa • Kronid Lyubarsky • Luis Aparicio • Moise Safra • Paul Cohen • Richard Portman • Robert Stigwood • Ron Pember