Russell Baker

Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1993 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution." ^{Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (d. 2019)}

14 August 1925

Born on the same birth day (14 August): Ben Sidran • Giacomo Capuzzi • Greg Rawlinson • Karl Petter Løken • Letitia Elizabeth Landon • Mike Vrabel • Mstislav Dobuzhinsky • Paolo Sarpi • Peter Malinauskas • Robin Söderling • Slim Dunlap • Willy Ronis

Born in the same month (August 1925): Billy Grammer • Erik Schmidt (painter) • Ernst Jandl • Etelka Keserű • Floyd Curry • John Dexter • Mal Waldron • Marv Levy • Pierre Grondin • Willie Jones (third baseman)