James Fallows

James Mackenzie Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.

2 August 1949

Born on the same birth date (2 August 1949): Bertalan Farkas

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Aino Kallas • Betsy Bloomingdale • Cedric Ceballos • Deividas Šemberas • Dennis Prager • Eric Simms (rugby league) • François Weyergans • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi • Giampaolo Pazzini • Jon R. Cavaiani • Mahmud I • Matt Henderson (cricketer) • Mohammad Zahid (cricketer) • Mohammed Kudus • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria • Roy Crimmins • Skylar Diggins-Smith • Stefan Effenberg • Susie O'Neill • Vitalia Diatchenko

Born in the same month (August 1949): Bertalan Farkas • Bettina Arndt • Bob Backlund • Diana Nyad • Dino Bravo • Hugh Cornwell • Ian Charleson • Jim Brunzell • Joe Regalbuto • John Riggins • Keith Carradine • Loretta Devine • Mark Knopfler • Matthew Parris • Philip Casnoff • Phyllis Smith • Ray Nettles • Richard Gere • Stephen McKinley Henderson • Sue Slipman • Vicky Leandros • Willy Rey