Leon Litwack

Leon Frank Litwack was an American historian whose scholarship focused on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. ^{Leon Litwack, American historian and author (d. 2021)}

2 December 1929

Born on the same birth date (2 December 1929): Dan Jenkins

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Alfred Enoch • Andrew George (politician) • Brandon Knight (basketball) • Carol Shea-Porter • Cassie Steele • David Macaulay • David Piper (racing driver) • Elias Lindholm • Erima Northcroft • Gary Becker • Jake Doran • John Banks (New Zealand politician) • John Barbirolli • Mark Kotsay • Matteo Darmian • Nelly Furtado • Otto Dix • Renee Montgomery • Treach • Wayne Allard • Willie Brown (American football) • Yvonne Catterfeld

Born in the same month (December 1929): Bob Brookmeyer • Christopher Plummer • Dan Jenkins • David Doyle • Frank Springer • Gregory Carroll (R&B singer) • Kathleen Crowley • Maarten Schmidt • Mies Bouwman • Nicholas Courtney • Nikolaus Harnoncourt • Peter May (cricketer) • Ron Jarden • Rosalinde Hurley • Régine Zylberberg • Terry Sawchuk • Wazir Mohammad • William Safire