Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and began to write for television.

19 August 1921

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Alessandro Matri • Alfred Rouleau • Billy J. Kramer • C. I. Scofield • David Hopwood • Ellen Willmott • Fernando Gaviria • George Enescu • Grace Hutchins • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi • Kazuyoshi Tatsunami • Lajos Baróti • Martin Donovan • Oumar Kondé • Probus (emperor)

Born in the same month (August 1921): Alex Haley • August Kowalczyk • Ben Bradlee • Ernest Angley • Esther Williams • Fernando Fernán Gómez • Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg • Hayden Carruth • Jack Kramer • Jimmy McCracklin • Marilyn Maxwell • Maurice Richard • Monty Hall • Pat McDonald (actress) • Reuven Feuerstein • William Asher