Claiborne Pell was born on 22 November 1918 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was previously married to Nuala O'Donnell. He died on 1 January 2009 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
[response to being asked in a 1996 interview how the BEOG grant program came to be known as the Pell Grant. Actually, the name was officially changed to Pell Grant in 1980 by his colleagues in Congress.] Because there was no Senator Beog!
