Art Shires

Charles Arthur Shires was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators and Boston Braves. In a four-year major league career, Shires played in 290 games, accumulating 287 hits in 986 at bats for a .291 career batting average along with 11 home runs, 119 runs batted in, an on-base percentage of .347, and a .988 fielding percentage.

13 August 1906

Born on the same birth date (13 August 1906): Chuck Carroll

Born on the same birth day (13 August): Bernard Manning • Bert Lahr • Christian Müller (footballer, born 1983) • Chuck Gilmur • Dan Fogelberg • DeMarcus Cousins • Ertha Pascal-Trouillot • Fidel Castro • Gerrit van Look • Giovanni Agnelli • Herb Ritts • Jamie Reed (footballer) • Jim Brunzell • Jimmy McCracklin • José Ramón Guizado • Koji Kondo • Lars Engqvist • Michael Klim • Rex Humbard • Taizō Sugimura • Thomas Pogge • Vladimir Odoyevsky

Born in the same month (August 1906): Bunny Austin • Chuck Carroll • Ed Gein • Jim Smith (cricketer, born 1906) • Joan Blondell • Joan Hickson • John Betjeman • John Huston • Marcel Carné • Vic Dickenson