Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter

Ian Hislop

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist and television personality. He is the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye, a position he has held since 1986. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes and has been a team captain on the BBC satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You since its inception in 1990 and remains the only person to appear in all of its episodes as the other team captain Paul Merton didn't appear in 7 of the 8 episodes of series 11 (1996). Hislop has frequently been involved in legal battles, as Private Eye has often been sued for libel over the years.

Born

1960

July 13

Died

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Key dates

1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1174 William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1249 Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1260 The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1402 Nanjing surrenders to Zhu Di without a fight, ending the Jingnan campaign. The Jianwen Emperor disappears and his family is incarcerated.

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The world in 1960

When Ian arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 13

Faf du Plessis 1984– South African professional cricketer Fuziah Salleh 1959– Malaysian politician John Jacob Astor IV 1864– American colonel and businessman (died 1912) Kenneth Clark 1903–2005 English historian and author (died 1983) Kurt Westergaard 1935– Danish cartoonist (died 2021) Naomi Shemer 1930–2004 Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2004) Piero Manzoni 1933–1963 Italian painter and sculptor (born 1933) Robert Calder 1745–1818 Scottish admiral (born 1745) Stan Coveleski 1889– American baseball player (died 1984)

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Also born in 1960

Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach

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