Edward Bernays

Edward Louis Bernays was an American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations, including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and nonprofit organizations. His uncle was psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

22 November 1891

Born on the same birth day (22 November): Alden Ehrenreich • Anne Crawford • C. J. De Garis • Christian Rohlfs • Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain • Gardnar Mulloy • Katherine Plunket • Lazar Kaganovich • Mandy Minella • Miguel Covarrubias • Natalie Achonwa • Owen Power • Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant • Peter Townsend (RAF officer) • Ralph Guldahl • Tom Elliott (radio personality) • Ville Valo

Born in the same month (November 1891): Carl W. Stalling • Erwin Rommel • Frederick Banting • Genrikh Yagoda • Gio Ponti • Gregorio Perfecto • Mabel Alvarez • Reginald Denny (actor) • Vasil Gendov • W. Averell Harriman • Ōnishiki Uichirō