Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

10 June 1893

Born on the same birth day (10 June): Augie Auer • Bobby Jindal • David Miller (South African cricketer) • Gustave Courbet • Jessica DiCicco • Kate Upton • Leelee Sobieski • Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier • Mitchell Wallace • Nandamuri Balakrishna • Rahul Bajaj

Born in the same month (June 1893): Alan Arnold Griffith • Alois Hába • August Zamoyski • Ernst Marcus (zoologist) • Gaby Morlay • Nellah Massey Bailey • Walter Ulbricht