Bill Hagerty is a British former newspaper editor, now chairman of "British Journalism Review". Born in Ilford, Hagerty attended Beal Grammar School, where he developed an interest in journalism, although his headteacher was dismissive of the idea. Despite this, he entered journalism with local newspapers before joining Reynolds News, soon to become the Sunday Citizen, in 1962. He then moved to the Daily Sketch and then Mirror group, where he worked for many years that included spells as Assistant Editor of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People. Hagerty left the Mirror group in 1985, joining Today, serving as Managing Editor and, from 1987, editor of Sunday Today. He returned to "Mirror" group to become Deputy Editor of the Sunday Mirror in 1988, then Deputy Editor and subsequently Acting Editor of the Daily Mirror in 1990, before becoming Editor of The People the following year. This last move was a complete surprise to Hagerty, who had believed that, already in his fifties, he would not be appointed to the editorship of a national newspaper. [More at Wikipedia]

April 23rd, 1939 in (Age 85)