Gary Gabelich
Gary Michael Gabelich was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970, on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah. Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
29 August 1940
Born on the same birth date (29 August 1940): James Brady
Born on the same birth day (29 August): Arthur B. McDonald • Charlie Parker • Chris Copping • Chris Taylor (baseball) • David West (basketball) • Geoff Whitehorn • Giorgio Orsoni • Hiroki Kikuta • John O'Brien (soccer) • Len Butterfield • Marquis James • Meshell Ndegeocello • Michael P. Kube-McDowell • Phil Harvey (band manager) • Warren Jabali • Will Perdue
Born in the same month (August 1940): Bobby Hatfield • Coriún Aharonián • Gudrun Ensslin • James Tyler (musician) • Jill St. John • Keith Savage (rugby union) • Richard Sanders (actor) • Robin Harper • Roger Cook (songwriter) • Sonny Sharrock • Will Tura