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): Agnes Marshall • Arian Foster • Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. • Gregory Jarvis • John I of Castile • Linton Kwesi Johnson • Michael Thomas (footballer, born 1967) • Richard Meale • Ronee Blakley • Rupert Grint • Todd Young

Born in the same month (August 1913): Bob Scheffing • Hector Crawford • Helen Levitt • Jack Dreyfus • Kalevi Kotkas • Len Butterfield • Mel Tolkin • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez • Paul Dean (baseball) • Robert Hayden • Walt Kelly • Wilbur Norman Christiansen • Xavier Thaninayagam