Ivan Stang

Ivan Stang is an American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

21 August 1953

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Bruce Anstey • Chesley V. Morton • Christian Vázquez • Claude Grahame-White • Count Basie • Emilio Salgari • Giacomo F. Maraldi • Jim Bullinger • Joe Strummer • Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra • Perry Christie • Steve Case • Steve Cowper • Tyler Winklevoss • William Henry Ogilvie

Born in the same month (August 1953): Andrea Saltelli • Anthony Seldon • Ditmar Jakobs • Herta Müller • Hiroyuki Usui • Horace Panter • James "J.T." Taylor • James Horner • Joan Smith • Kevin Rowland • Leroy Burgess • Pavel Vinogradov • Peter Horton • Peter Stormare • Rick Mahler • Ron George • Sam Torrance • Tom Berryhill • Tom Cohen • Tõnu Kaljuste • Wolfgang Hohlbein