Top 10 April 1 Birthdays
10. April 1, 1922: William Manchester. Writing for Life magazine, he interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy shortly after her husband's assassination, her only interview after it. In 1967, he published Death of a President , still the definitive book on the assassination, despite the many conspiracy theories about it. He also wrote biographies of JFK, Ferdinand Magellan, H.L. Mencken, Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur; histories of the Rockefeller and Krupp families; and A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance -- Portrait of an Age . 9. April 1, 1973: Rachel Maddow. After starring on radio on Air America from 2005 to 2010, she hosted The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC from then until 2022, stepping aside to take on other projects. She has 3 Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award (for Best Spoken Word Album). 8. April 1, 1924: Brendan Byrne. As Prosecutor of Essex County, New Jersey, a crime lord he was prosecuting was caught on tape saying that he ...