Jimmy Doolittle
James Harold Doolittle was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early coast-to-coast flights, record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop flight-test instrument flying.
14 December 1896
Born on the same birth day (14 December): Chris Waddle • Ewa Białołęcka • Hans von Ohain • John Kemény (prince) • Kenneth Medwood • Louis Marshall • Philander Chase
Born in the same month (December 1896): Ann Nolan Clark • Anna Anderson • Betty Smith • Carl Ferdinand Cori • Carl Zuckmayer • Georgy Zhukov • Gerald Barry (British Army officer) • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa • Ira Gershwin • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Louis Bromfield • Maurice De Waele • Torsten Bergström