Charles Snead Houston

Charles Snead Houston was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attempts to climb the mountain K2 in the Karakoram Range.

24 August 1913

Born on the same birth day (24 August): Anjali Devi • Arthur Crudup • Arthur III, Duke of Brittany • Brian Rajadurai • Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin • Fernand Braudel • J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist) • James Calhoun (soldier) • Jimmy Soul • John Taylor (poet) • Jorge Luis Borges • Juan Pedro Lanzani • Karl Hanke • Kenny Guinn • Max Beerbohm • Orson Scott Card • Rich Beem • Richard Cushing • Ronnie Grieveson • Shoichi Funaki • Sofia Richie • Vince McMahon • Vladimir Masorin

Born in the same month (August 1913): Angus Wilson • George Van Eps • Jack Dreyfus • Jackie Mitchell • Richard L. Bare • Romain Maes • Terence Reese