Roy Cohn

American lawyer (1927–1985)

Roy Cohn (1927–1986) was an American lawyer, writer and biographer. Cohn was born in New York City on 20 February 1927. He died in Bethesda on 2 August 1986, at the age of 59.

Cohn studied at Columbia University, Columbia Law School and Horace Mann School.

Cohn was the son of Albert C. Cohn. The recorded cause of death is death from AIDS-related complications.

Roy Cohn is covered in 32 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond the United States.

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