Eugene Burton Ely

Eugene Burton Ely was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.

21 October 1886

Born on the same birth day (21 October): Andrew Scott (actor) • Andrée Boisson • Brent Mydland • Brian Tobin • Casey Fien • Celia Cruz • Dean Collis • Edogawa Ranpo • Festus Ezeli • Hari Kondabolu • Henrik Klingenberg • James White (basketball) • Jim Parks (cricketer, born 1931) • Kerstin Andreae • Kim Kardashian • Martín Castrogiovanni • Milton Himmelfarb • Pierre Bellemare • Robert Clothier • Said Afandi al-Chirkawi

Born in the same month (October 1886): Alain-Fournier • David Ben-Gurion • Edwin Fischer • Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister) • Karl Polanyi • Leo G. Carroll • Noel Macklin • O. G. S. Crawford • Rube Marquard • Spring Byington • Zoe Akins