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2007 Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany

2004 Julius Schwartz, comic editor/agent, dies at 88

2002 Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79

2001 Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73

2001 Mortimer Adler, "writer, ""Great Books"" editor", dies at 98

2000 Clifton Daniel, American Editor

1998 Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1997 Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74

1997 Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52

1997 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76

1997 Phyllis Hartnoll, writer and editor, dies at 90

1996 Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85

1996 Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor, dies at 59

1996 Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88

1996 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66

1996 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96

1996 Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83

1996 Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86

1996 Horace Leonard Gold, science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81

1995 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79

1995 Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86

1995 David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71

1995 Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38

1995 Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77

1995 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69

1995 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67

1995 Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50

1995 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84

1994 Said Mekbel, Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered at 57

1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93

1994 John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84

1994 Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82

1994 Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26

1993 Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey

1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86

1993 Art Hodes, Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies

1993 George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77

1992 LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87

1992 Alan Balsam, U.S. movie editor (Divine Madness), dies

1992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies

1992 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies

1992 Donald Zimmerman, editor, dies

1990 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75

1989 Diana Vreeland, American Editor

1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad

1989 Howard Simons, American Editor

1988 John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56

1985 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76

1984 Uwe Johnson, writer, scholar, editor, dies at 59

1983 Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida

1982 Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador

1981 Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57

1977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa

1973 Margaret Anderson, American Editor

1972 John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies

1971 Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61

1966 Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies

1965 Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft

1965 Piers Morgan, editor, Daily Mirror

1964 Steve Nevius, film editor, Eden, Fall Time, Damascus

1963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies

1960 Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You'

1959 Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed

1958 Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor

1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor

1956 Michael VerMeulen, born in Chicago, Illinois, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor

1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker

1955 Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life

1954 Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief, Elsevier Magazine

1954 Stephen Platt, editor, New Statesman and Society

1954 Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor

1954 Martin Dunn, British editor, Today

1953 Michael Byron, born in America, composer, released music on Koch Records, Meridien Records, editor, contemporary music anthologies

1953 Edward Marsh, British Editor

1951 Harold Ross, American Editor

1949 William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor

1949 Bill Keller, American Editor

1949 Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times

1948 Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor, Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss

1946 Adam Michnik, Polish Editor

1946 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS

1945 Charles Williams, English Editor

1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala

1944 Kenneth Tomlinson, American Editor

1944 John Bryant, editor, Europeans

1943 Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner

1943 Simon Jenkins, editor, Times

1943 Terry Pavey, editor, TV Times

1943 Howell Raines, American Editor

1943 Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered

1942 Nicholas Lloyd, editor, Daily Express

1941 George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1940 Peter Haining, writer and editor, Anatomy of Witchcraft

1940 Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas

1939 Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator

1939 William Hagerty, editor, People

1938 Peter Preston, editor, Guardian

1937 Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor

1935 Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses

1934 Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize

1934 Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times

1934 Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator, Another Republic

1933 Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor

1932 Peter Bart, American Editor

1931 Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author, Nude on Fence

1931 Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1930 Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who

1930 JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor, Limbourg Daily

1930 Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post

1930 Edward W. Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66

1929 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor

1929 Larry Lamb, newspaper editor

1929 James Bishop, editor, London News Publications

1929 Howard Simons, American Editor

1928 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster

1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies

1927 Joop F. Wolff, Dutch editor, Truth, Dutch politician, CPN

1926 Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds

1926 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor

1925 Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

1924 David Richard Holloway, literary Editor

1923 John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy

1922 Stan Lee, writer, editor and co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more comic characters

1922 Henry Anatole Grunwald, Austrian Editor

1922 Viktor Afanasiev, editor, Pravda

1922 Alan Ross, editor, London Magazine

1922 Abraham Rosenthal, editor, New York Times

1922 Howard Moss, poet/editor, New Yorker

1921 Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist, National Review

1921 Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive, Washington Post

1920 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor

1920 David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness

1920 John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express

1918 Tom Scott, poet/editor

1917 William Putnam Bundy, London, editor, Lvaggerier and Vagaries

1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times

1914 Catherine Marshall, editor/writer

1914 Joseph M "Joop" Lucker, Dutch journalist/editor in chief, Volkskrant

1914 Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor

1914 Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55

1913 Mignon McLaughlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value'

1912 Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist

1912 Clifton Daniel, American Editor

1912 Alexander Liberman, editor/painter/photographer, 639

1912 Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review

1912 Selwyn Powell, art editor

1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement

1911 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor

1910 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois

1910 John Beavan, newspaper editor

1909 Rich Lowry, American Editor

1909 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP, GVP, editor, Netherlands Daily

1909 Miron Grindea, literary editor

1908 Hilary Preston, editor

1907 Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic

1906 Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor

1906 Diana Vreeland, American Editor

1905 L H Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief, Reformed of Netherlands

1899 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth

1898 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor

1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies

1898 Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, De Standaard 1929-39

1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73

1897 Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University

1892 Harold Ross, American Editor

1892 David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox

1891 Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao

1891 Robert W. P. Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief, Haarlem Newspaper

1890 Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor

1888 Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62

1887 Charles D. Brown, born in Iowa, actor, Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor

1886 Margaret Anderson, American Editor

1886 Charles Williams, English Editor

1883 Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus, Dutch-Indies

1882 George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury

1882 Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor

1880 Robert Rutherford McCormick, U.S., editor/publisher, Chicago Tribune

1879 Frederick G. Melcher, U.S., publisher/editor/founded children book week

1876 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85

1873 Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor, Inheritors

1872 Edward Marsh, British Editor

1868 Petrus A. Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao

1868 William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, editor, Pulitzer 1942

1866 Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher

1864 Gerard W. Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor, Groene Amsterdammer

1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Q, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse

1863 John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38

1862 Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor

1862 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45

1861 Owen Seaman, poet/editor, Punch

1860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I

1857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher

1856 Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia

1851 Charles H Dow, co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St. Journal

1850 Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper

1846 Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor, Groene

1842 Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad, 1885-1908

1841 New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley

1837 William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic

1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1826 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor

1823 Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune

1820 John Bartlett, U.S., editor, compiled Familiar Quotations

1817 Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor

1817 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor, Iduna

1812 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor

1811 Horace Greeley, editor, "Go west, young man"

1806 Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag

1796 Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools

1791 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor, Washington Globe

1787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic

1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1749 Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian

1741 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor


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