As per our current Database, Russell Baker is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Russell Baker is 99 years, 2 months and 19 days old. Russell Baker will celebrate 100rd birthday on a Thursday 14th of August 2025. Below we countdown to Russell Baker upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Russell Baker |
| Occupation | Memoirist |
| Age | 99 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 14, 1925 (Morrisonville, VA) |
| Birthday | August 14 |
| Town/City | Morrisonville, VA |
| Nationality | VA |
Russell Baker’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Russell Baker was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
New York Times newspaper columnist and author. A Pulitzer Prize recipient, he penned works of prose and satire and published a 1982 memoir entitled Growing Up.
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in the late 1940s.
He hosted PBS's Masterpiece Theatre during the 1990s and early 2000s.
He and his two younger sisters grew up in Morrisonville, Virginia as the children of Lucy and Benny Baker.
He penned the libretto for Home Again, Home Again, a theatrical piece with music by Cy Coleman.
