Dixy Lee Ray

Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy.

3 September 1914

Born on the same birth day (3 September): Al Jardine • Charles Tatham (fencer) • Fotis Kouvelis • Joseph de Jussieu • Macfarlane Burnet • Niklas Süle • Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria • Robbie O'Davis • Steven Johnson Leyba

Born in the same month (September 1914): Achille Compagnoni • Creighton Abrams • Desmond Llewelyn • Gail Kubik • Graeme Bell • Jack Cardiff • Jack LaLanne • John H. Adams (jockey) • John Manners (cricketer) • John Passmore • Rais Amrohvi • Shin Kanemaru • Stuart Freeborn • Terence O'Neill • Thomas J. Bata