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): Alan Mulally • Frances Allen • Greta Gerwig • Joe Tate (footballer) • Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist) • Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Nikos Liberopoulos • Rupert Farley • Satoshi Hino • Silvan Shalom • Tomasz Kaczor • Vilhelm Dahlerup • Vishal Bhardwaj • Walter Pater

Born in the same month (August 1938): David Canary • Diana Muldaur • Frederick Forsyth • Jacques Hétu • Jean Berkey • Jean-Loup Chrétien • Jet Black • Maxine Waters • Paul Bartel • Peter Bonerz • Pierre de Bané • Terry Wogan