American journalist

Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He has been a host of The Situation Room, now formally known as The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, since 2005. Since March 2025, Blitzer co-hosts the show with Pamela Brown; previously he served as the network's lead political anchor until 2021 and as the sole host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer during the show's early evening run between 2005 and 2025.

Born

1948

March 22

Died

Living

Era

1940s

Country

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Wolf, in brief

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Key dates

1948 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

106 Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
235 Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
871 Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
1185 Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.

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The world in 1948

When Wolf arrived

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 22

Adam Sedgwick 1785–1873 British geologist, Anglican priest and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1785) Ahmed Cevdet Pasha 1822–1895 Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (died 1895) August Hermann Francke 1663–1727 German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (born 1663) Catherine Brandon 1519–1580 Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (died 1580) Chico Marx 1887–1961 American actor (died 1961) Chris Ivory 1988– American football player Emilio Aguinaldo 1869–1964 Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869) Ernest Lawson 1873–1939 Canadian-American painter (born 1873) Foo Foo Lammar 1937–2003 British drag queen (died 2003)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1948

Art Spiegelman 1948– Swedish-American cartoonist and critic Buck Martinez 1948– American baseball player and manager Carl Weathers 1948–2024 American football player and actor (born 1948) Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Christopher Guest 1948– British-American actor and director Claude Jade 1948–2006 French actress (born 1948) Cliff Thorburn 1948– Canadian snooker player Davíð Oddsson 1948– Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2026) Dayle Haddon 1948– Canadian model and actress (died 2024)

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