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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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