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Daniel Ellsberg

1931 - 2023

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Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who later would be involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Ellsberg is the 192nd most popular economist (down from 179th in 2019), the 3,325th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,739th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Daniel Ellsberg ranks 192 out of 414. Before him are Michel Camdessus, Walter Eucken, Peter Navarro, Gustav Cassel, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. After him are Thomas Piketty, Nikolay Danilevsky, Benjamin Tucker, Clément Juglar, John Bates Clark, and Pierre Leroux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Daniel Ellsberg ranks 166. Before him are Thorvald Stoltenberg, Adriana Asti, Rip Torn, Colin Wilson, Jan Troell, and Roman Opałka. After him are Freddy Quinn, Kang Song-san, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Shadia, Zeki Müren, and Linda Nochlin. Among people deceased in 2023, Daniel Ellsberg ranks 148. Before him are Adolf Scherer, Edward L. G. Bowell, Ken Mattingly, Rita Lee, Henri Konan Bédié, and Daisaku Ikeda. After him are Earl Boen, Juliette Mayniel, Howard S. Becker, Lance Reddick, Robert Blake, and Inna Churikova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Ellsberg ranks 3,325 out of 20,380. Before him are Jensen Ackles (1978), Winston Groom (1943), Brian Weiss (1944), Alfred Bester (1913), Horace Wells (1815), and Dan Hedaya (1940). After him are Peter Cetera (1944), Eric Trump (1984), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Brad Little (1954), Kathy Reichs (1948), and Earl Boen (1945).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Daniel Ellsberg ranks 62. Before him are Greg Mankiw (1958), Robert C. Merton (1944), Robert B. Wilson (1937), Henry George (1839), Jim Rogers (1942), and Peter Navarro (1949). After him are Benjamin Tucker (1854), John Bates Clark (1847), Alvin Hansen (1887), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Paul Milgrom (1948), and Paul Douglas (1892).

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