Shana Alexander

Shana Alexander was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes in the late 1970s with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

6 October 1925

Born on the same birth day (6 October): Brett Gelman • Carole Lombard • Caroline Gordon • Chiang Wei-kuo • Ernest Walton • Ferenc Nádasdy • Florence B. Seibert • George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax • Joe Rafferty • Johan Herman Wessel • Kennet Andersson • Klaus Dibiasi • Kyle Pitts • Manfred Winkelhock • Maria Kannegaard • Morné Morkel • Niall Quinn • Peter Dowding • Riccardo Giacconi • Robert Kuok • Roland Garros (aviator) • Shauna MacDonald (Canadian actress) • Tommy Lawton • Wes Ramsey • Will Butler

Born in the same month (October 1925): Angela Lansbury • Aurora Bautista • Celia Cruz • Dory Previn • Haim Hefer • Herbert Kretzmer • Ian Hamilton Finlay • Mickey Baker • Monica Sims • Robert Rauschenberg • Slater Martin • Tommy Ridgley • Walter Dale Miller • Willie Mabon • Zoot Sims