Frank McCourt

Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.

19 August 1930

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Bill Shoemaker • Charles Bolden • Edgar F. Codd • George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd • Gustavo Santaolalla • Jimmy Watson (ice hockey) • Khandro Rinpoche • Roberto Abbondanzieri • Rose Heilbron • Steve Ott • Sudha Murty • Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana

Born in the same month (August 1930): Big Tiny Little • Carlos Loyzaga • Geoffrey Holder • George Soros • György Enyedi (geographer) • Harve Bennett • Jackie Brenston • Jerry Tarkanian • Károly Grósz • Michal Kováč • Michel Rocard • Pierre Bourdieu • Rafael Pineda Ponce • Roger McCluskey • Sean Connery • Wilmer Mizell