Walter Stewart (journalist)

Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them bestsellers. The Globe and Mail reported news of his death with the headline: "He was Canada's conscience." ^{Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)}

19 April 1931

Born on the same birth day (19 April): Anna Lee Aldred • Azlan Shah of Perak • Christoph Bach (musician) • Elizabeth Dilling • Ernst Rüdin • Ferdinand I of Austria • Hayden Christensen • John Horlock • Joseph Estrada • Karl Tarvas • Kate Hudson • Margo MacDonald • Maria Sharapova • Mukesh Ambani • Rhea Silberta • Samuel C. Morrison Jr. • Stanley Fish • Suge Knight • Sven Hassel • Tim Curry • Willem Drost

Born in the same month (April 1931): David Shepherd (artist) • Donald Barthelme • Frank Auerbach • Geoffrey Dalton • George Baker (British actor) • Ivan Dixon • Jack Clement • James Dickens • John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) • Julian Carroll • Keith Hitchins • Kenneth Bloomfield • Leonid Derbenyov