Ellen Schrecker

Ellen Wolf Schrecker is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at NYU. She is known primarily for her work in the history of McCarthyism. Historian Ronald Radosh has described her as "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians." ^{Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic}

4 August 1938

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Andrew McLeod • Cole Sprouse • François Valéry • Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling • John Fitch (racing driver) • Leopold I, Duke of Austria • Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici • Marcos (footballer, born 1973) • Marques Houston • Martin Jarvis (actor) • Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil politician) • Thomas Blackwell (scholar) • Wang Hao (chess player)

Born in the same month (August 1938): Alain Vivien • Christian Müller (footballer, born 1938) • David Freiberg • Jet Black • Marcello Gandini • Marla Adams • Mike Weston • Otto Rehhagel • Pran Kumar Sharma • Robert Rubin • Rod Laver • Steve Cowper • Stix Hooper • Tony Ross