2014 Event Rebekah Brooks has been declared not guilty, and Editor Andy Coulson has been pronounced guilty in the 'News of the World' phone hacking case 2014 Event The 'New York Times' fires its first female executive editor Jill Abramson after three years in the position; Abramson has been replaced by Dean Baquet, the newspaper's first African-American executive editor 2010 Event Jean Leonard Rugambage, a Rwandan journalist, is shot dead in front of his home in Kigali; the exiled chief editor of Umuvugizi believes the government is responsible 2007 Death Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany 2004 Death Julius Schwartz, comic editor/agent, dies at 88 2002 Death Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79 2001 Death Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73 2001 Death Mortimer Adler, "writer, ""Great Books"" editor", dies at 98 2000 Death Clifton Daniel, American Editor 1998 Death Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies 1997 Death Ruth Picardie, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer, dies in Lambeth, London, of breast cancer, at age 33 1997 Death Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74 1997 Death Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52 1997 Death Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76 1997 Death Phyllis Hartnoll, writer and editor, dies at 90 1996 Death Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85 1996 Death Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor, dies at 59 1996 Death Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88 1996 Death Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66 1996 Event 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96 1996 Death Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83 1996 Death Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86 1996 Death Horace Leonard Gold, science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81 1995 Death Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 1995 Death Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86 1995 Death David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71 1995 Death 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 Death Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77 1995 Death Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69 1995 Death Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 1995 Death Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50 1995 Death Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84 1994 Death Said Mekbel, Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered at 57 1994 Death Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93 1994 Death John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 1994 Death Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82 1994 Death Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26 1993 Death 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 Death Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86 1993 Death Art Hodes, Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies 1993 Death George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77 1992 Death LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87 1992 Death Alan Balsam, U.S. movie editor (Divine Madness), dies 1992 Death Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies 1992 Death C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies 1992 Death Donald Zimmerman, editor, dies 1990 Death Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75 1989 Death Diana Vreeland, American Editor 1989 Event Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad 1989 Death Howard Simons, American Editor 1988 Death John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 1985 Death Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76 1984 Death Uwe Johnson, writer, scholar, editor, dies at 59 1983 Death 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 Death Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador 1981 Death Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 1977 Event Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa 1973 Death Margaret Anderson, American Editor 1972 Death John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1971 Death Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 1969 Birthday Bryant H. McGill, born in Mobile, Alabama, editor, author, celebrity publicist, creator, celebrity verification group, books include the 'McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme' 1966 Death Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1965 Birthday Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft 1965 Birthday John Leonard, born in Australia, poet, editor of poetry journal, 'Overland', 'Unlove', 'Braided Lands', 'Jesus in Kashmir' 1965 Birthday Piers Morgan, born in England, editor of tabloids, the Daily Mirror, News of the World, judge on television show, 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'America's Got Talent' 1964 Birthday Ruth Picardie, born in Reading, England, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer 1964 Birthday Steve Nevius, film editor, Eden, Fall Time, Damascus 1963 Death William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies 1960 Birthday 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 Event Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed 1958 Death Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor 1957 Event Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor 1956 Birthday 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 Event William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker 1955 Birthday Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life 1954 Birthday Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief, Elsevier Magazine 1954 Birthday Stephen Platt, editor, New Statesman and Society 1954 Death Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor 1953 Birthday Tina Brown, born in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, journalist, magazine editor, talk-show host, columnist, author of The Diana Chronicles 1953 Birthday Michael Byron, born in America, composer, released music on Koch Records, Meridien Records, editor, contemporary music anthologies 1953 Death Edward Marsh, British Editor 1951 Death Harold Ross, American Editor 1949 Birthday William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor 1949 Birthday Bill Keller, American Editor 1949 Birthday Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times 1948 Birthday Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor, Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss 1946 Birthday Adam Michnik, Polish Editor 1946 Birthday Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS 1945 Death Charles Williams, English Editor 1944 Event Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala 1944 Birthday Kenneth Tomlinson, American Editor 1944 Birthday John Bryant, editor, Europeans 1943 Birthday Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner 1943 Birthday Simon Jenkins, editor, Times 1943 Birthday Terry Pavey, editor, TV Times 1943 Birthday Howell Raines, American Editor 1943 Death Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered 1942 Birthday Nicholas Lloyd, editor, Daily Express 1941 Birthday George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1940 Birthday Peter Haining, writer and editor, Anatomy of Witchcraft 1940 Birthday Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas 1939 Birthday Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator 1939 Birthday William Hagerty, editor, People 1938 Birthday Peter Preston, editor, Guardian 1937 Birthday Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor 1935 Birthday Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 1934 Birthday Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1934 Birthday Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times 1934 Birthday Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator, Another Republic 1933 Birthday Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine 1933 Birthday Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor 1932 Birthday Peter Bart, American Editor 1931 Birthday Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author, Nude on Fence 1931 Birthday Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine 1930 Birthday Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who 1930 Birthday JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor, Limbourg Daily 1930 Birthday Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post 1930 Death Edward W. Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66 1929 Birthday Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor 1929 Birthday Larry Lamb, newspaper editor 1929 Birthday James Bishop, editor, London News Publications 1929 Birthday Howard Simons, American Editor 1928 Birthday Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster 1927 Death Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies 1927 Birthday Joop F. Wolff, Dutch editor, Truth, Dutch politician, CPN 1926 Birthday Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds 1926 Birthday Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor 1925 Birthday 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 Birthday David Richard Holloway, literary Editor 1923 Birthday 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 Birthday Stan Lee, writer, editor and co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more comic characters 1922 Birthday Henry Anatole Grunwald, Austrian Editor 1922 Birthday Viktor Afanasiev, editor, Pravda 1922 Birthday Alan Ross, editor, London Magazine 1922 Birthday Abraham Rosenthal, editor, New York Times 1922 Birthday Howard Moss, poet/editor, New Yorker 1921 Birthday Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist, National Review 1921 Birthday Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive, Washington Post 1920 Birthday Louis Pauwels, writer/editor 1920 Birthday 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 Birthday John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express 1918 Birthday Tom Scott, poet/editor 1917 Birthday William Putnam Bundy, London, editor, Lvaggerier and Vagaries 1916 Birthday Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times 1914 Birthday Catherine Marshall, editor/writer 1914 Birthday Joseph M "Joop" Lucker, Dutch journalist/editor in chief, Volkskrant 1914 Birthday Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor 1914 Death Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55 1913 Birthday 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 Birthday Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist 1912 Birthday Clifton Daniel, American Editor 1912 Birthday Alexander Liberman, editor/painter/photographer, 639 1912 Birthday Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review 1912 Birthday Selwyn Powell, art editor 1912 Birthday Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1911 Birthday Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor 1910 Event 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois 1910 Birthday John Beavan, newspaper editor 1909 Birthday Rich Lowry, American Editor 1909 Birthday Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP, GVP, editor, Netherlands Daily 1909 Birthday Miron Grindea, literary editor 1908 Birthday Hilary Preston, editor 1907 Birthday Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic 1906 Birthday Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor 1906 Birthday Diana Vreeland, American Editor 1905 Birthday L H Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief, Reformed of Netherlands 1899 Birthday Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth 1898 Birthday Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor 1898 Death Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies 1898 Birthday Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, De Standaard 1929-39 1897 Death Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 1897 Birthday 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 Birthday Harold Ross, American Editor 1892 Birthday David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox 1891 Birthday Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao 1891 Birthday Robert W. P. Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief, Haarlem Newspaper 1890 Birthday Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor 1888 Death Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62 1887 Birthday Charles D. Brown, born in Iowa, actor, Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor 1886 Birthday Margaret Anderson, American Editor 1886 Birthday Charles Williams, English Editor 1883 Birthday Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus, Dutch-Indies 1882 Birthday George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury 1882 Birthday Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor 1880 Birthday Robert Rutherford McCormick, U.S., editor/publisher, Chicago Tribune 1879 Birthday Frederick G. Melcher, U.S., publisher/editor/founded children book week 1876 Death Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85 1873 Birthday Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor, Inheritors 1872 Birthday Edward Marsh, British Editor 1868 Birthday Petrus A. Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao 1868 Birthday William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, editor, Pulitzer 1942 1866 Birthday Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher 1864 Birthday Gerard W. Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor, Groene Amsterdammer 1863 Birthday Arthur Quiller-Couch, Q, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1863 Birthday John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38 1862 Birthday Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor 1862 Death Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 1861 Birthday Owen Seaman, poet/editor, Punch 1860 Birthday Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I 1857 Birthday Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher 1856 Birthday Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia 1851 Birthday Charles H Dow, co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St. Journal 1850 Birthday Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper 1846 Birthday Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor, Groene 1842 Birthday Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad, 1885-1908 1841 Event New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley 1837 Birthday William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic 1836 Birthday Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy 1826 Birthday Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor 1823 Birthday Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune 1820 Birthday John Bartlett, U.S., editor, compiled Familiar Quotations 1817 Birthday Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor 1817 Birthday Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor, Iduna 1812 Death Edmund Malone, Irish Editor 1811 Birthday Horace Greeley, editor, "Go west, young man" 1806 Birthday Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag 1796 Birthday Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools 1791 Birthday Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor, Washington Globe 1787 Birthday Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic 1762 Event 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury 1749 Birthday Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian 1741 Birthday Edmund Malone, Irish Editor
