George Petty
George Brown Petty IV was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work, known as "Petty Girls," were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle.
27 April 1894
Born on the same birth date (27 April 1894): Nicolas Slonimsky
Born on the same birth day (27 April): Ann Peebles • Charles Emmanuel III • Im Sang-soo • Irving Adler • Keith Magnuson • Larry Elder • Otto, King of Bavaria • Pete Ham • Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert • Russell T Davies • Sheena Easton • Stanisław Dziwisz • Sébastien Lareau • Taylor Chorney • Walter Lantz
Born in the same month (April 1894): Arthur Fadden • Carl Rudolf Florin • Dorothy Cumming • Francisco Craveiro Lopes • Hans Hüttig • Joie Ray (runner) • Nicolas Slonimsky • Nikita Khrushchev • Rudolf Hess