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): Alexander H. Bailey • Ander Herrera • Andy King (footballer, born 1956) • August 14 • Buddy Greco • Charlotte Fowler Wells • Earl Weaver • Fred Roberts • José Cóceres • Leopold Hofmann • Margaret Lindsay Huggins • Morten Olsen • Robin Söderling • Rusty Wallace • Slim Dunlap • Stig Tøfting

Born in the same month (August 1925): Alain Peyrefitte • Bill Neilson • George Wetherill • Guillermo Cano Isaza • Jack Hirshleifer • John Dexter • John McCormack (ice hockey) • Mal Waldron • Marv Levy • Nat Lofthouse • Norris McWhirter • Pierre Grondin