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Howard Zinn
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How Did Howard Zinn Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 87
GenderMaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn24/08/1922Born inBrooklyn, New York, USADied27/01/2010 (aged 87)Died inSanta MonicaCausemyocardial infarctionWikidataQ119546 ↗Buried atNewton CemeteryTMDb#110170 ↗

Howard Zinn was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.

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Filmography14 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2026Howard Zinn, une histoire populaire américaine 2Moviehimself104
2023Monumental MythsMovieSelf101
2015Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United StatesMovieHimself93
2013Creating Freedom: The Lottery of BirthMovie—91
2011EthosMovieSelf89
2010I AmMovieSelf88
2010Human ResourcesMovieSelf88
2010Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard ZinnMovieSelf88
2009The Most Dangerous Man in AmericaMovieSelf - Historian87
2008Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of WarMovieSelf86
2002Guts and GloryMovieSelf80
2002The Real Nam: Voices From WithinMovieSelf80
2001Democracy Now!SeriesSelf (archive footage)79
1996The Daily ShowSeriesSelf74