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): Antonio Fargas • Charlotte Fowler Wells • Connie Smith • Cosimo III de' Medici • Jack Gregory (cricketer) • James Horner • John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford • Josh Gorges • José Cóceres • Kyle Turris • Nüzhet Gökdoğan • Paolo Sarpi • Paul Burgess (athlete) • Paul Gallen • Richard R. Ernst • Robin Söderling • Susan Olsen

Born in the same month (August 1925): Benny Bailey • Claude Gauvreau • Ernst Jandl • Guillermo Cano Isaza • Jaswant Singh Neki • Oscar Peterson • Ross McWhirter • Stepas Butautas