Liz Smith (journalist)

Mary Elizabeth Smith was an American gossip columnist. She was known as "The Grand Dame of Dish". Beginning her career in radio in the 1950s, for a time she also anonymously wrote the "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column for the Hearst newspapers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, she was the entertainment editor for the magazines Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated. Between 1976 and 2009, she wrote a self-titled gossip column for newspapers including New York Newsday, the New York Daily News and the New York Post that was syndicated in 60 to 70 other newspapers. On television, she appeared on Fox, E!, and WNBC.

2 February 1923

Born on the same birth date (2 February 1923): Bonita Granville • Clem Windsor • James Dickey • Jean Babilée • Red Schoendienst • Svetozar Gligorić

Born on the same birth day (2 February): Alexandra Strelchenko • Andrew Davis (conductor) • Arthur Willis • Burton Lane • Dave Casper • Evgeny Velikhov • Frederick Lane • James Joyce • Jeff Okudah • Jill Scott (footballer) • John of Leiden • José Guadalupe Posada • Libby Purves • Robert Chef d'Hôtel

Born in the same month (February 1923): Antony Flew • Ben Weider • Bonita Granville • Charles Durning • Clarence D. Lester • Claude King • Clem Windsor • Conrad Bain • Dexter Gordon • Forbes Burnham • Franco Zeffirelli • François Cavanna • James Dickey • Jay Hebert • Svetozar Gligorić • Tonie Nathan • Victor Atiyeh • Yelena Bonner