Kenneth Kendall

Kenneth Kendall was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of The World Tonight in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. ^{Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)}

7 August 1924

Born on the same birth day (7 August): Alan Reid (politician) • Albert Kotin • Alexei Sayle • Altaír Jarabo • Ann Harding • August Ahlqvist • Carlos Vives • E. J. Tackett • Elizabeth Báthory • Garrison Keillor • Gerry Peñalosa • Greg Nickels • Huntley Wright • Jake Allen (ice hockey) • John Birmingham • John Glover (actor) • Kermit Love • Koenraad Elst • Manitas de Plata • Mark McCammon • Martti Nõmme • Mary Frances Winston Newson • Murat Dalkılıç • Trevor Hendy • Veljo Tormis

Born in the same month (August 1924): Frank Martínez (artist) • Herbert Wise • Jack Buck • Janet Frame • Kenny Dorham • Lajos Kisfaludy • Louis Teicher • Martha Hyer • Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • Peggy Ryan • Samuel Bowers • Tony MacGibbon • Zalman Schachter-Shalomi • Zsuzsa Körmöczy