Don Hewitt
Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated as the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
14 December 1922
Born on the same birth date (14 December 1922): Junior J. Spurrier • Nikolay Basov
Born on the same birth day (14 December): Charlie Hodge (guitarist) • Dan Dailey • Dee Wallace • Denis Thwaites • Deputy Prime Minister of Australia • Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham • Herbert Feigl • Jan Antonín Koželuh • Joyce Vincent Wilson • Ken Hill (baseball) • Kim St-Pierre • Michael Ovitz • Morihei Ueshiba • Natascha McElhone • Pat Burke • René Eespere • Shyam Benegal • Spike Jones • Stan Smith • Tomasz Radzinski • Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar
Born in the same month (December 1922): Esther Lederberg • Grace Paley • Halina Czerny-Stefańska • Itubwa Amram • Jane Langton • John Brunt • Junior J. Spurrier • Len Lesser • Redd Foxx