January 31, 1945
Married to Susan Holmes
Q&A: The Mathemagician, by Jascha Hoffman, Nature 478:457, Oct. 27, 2011
Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis, by Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 16, 2011.
MacTutor biography of Persi Diaconis
Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral
choices: Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in a flip of
the coin
by Esther Landhuis, Stanford Report: June 2004.