Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET. Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys.

30 November 1929

Born on the same birth date (30 November 1929): Dick Clark

Born on the same birth day (30 November): Bill Walsh (American football coach) • Bob Moore (musician) • Hugo Swire • Rajiv Dixit • Robert Guillaume • Thomas McElwee

Born in the same month (November 1929): Berry Gordy • Ed Asner • Franciszek Kokot • Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Imre Kertész • Jerry Hardin • Jesús de Polanco • Jimmy Piersall • June Squibb • Lu Chao-Hsuan • Muhammad Rafiq Tarar • Nicholas Mavroules • Ninón Sevilla • Norm Zauchin • Richard E. Taylor