Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

24 December 1905

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Amaury Nolasco • Anett Kontaveit • Attorney General of Alabama • Ernst Krenkel • George Patton IV • Kaspar Ulenberg • Kate Spade • Lev Vlassenko • Louis Tomlinson • Mark Valley • Oleg Skripochka • Philip Ziegler • Stephenie Meyer • Taro Goto • Timothy Carhart

Born in the same month (December 1905): Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter) • Ann Barzel • Anthony Powell • Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) • Cliff Arquette • Dalton Trumbo • Erico Verissimo • Francisco Javier Arana • Gerard Kuiper • Irving Kahn • Kenneth Rexroth • Les Ames • Mohammad Hidayatullah • Pierre Brasseur • Piet Hein (scientist) • Robert Henriques • Ruben Nirvi • Simo Häyhä • William Loeb III