John Fitch (racing driver)

John Cooper Fitch was an American racing driver and inventor. He was the first American to race automobiles successfully in Europe in the post-war era. ^{John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (d. 2012)}

4 August 1917

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Brooks D. Simpson • Béla Balázs • Coriún Aharonián • Dallas Green (baseball) • Jake Beckley • Klaus Schulze • Laura Knight • Michael Skibbe • Udai Singh II • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Wang Hao (chess player)

Born in the same month (August 1917): Caspar Weinberger • Ebba Haslund • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia • Isabel Sanford • John Lee Hooker • Leonid Hurwicz • Peanuts Lowrey • Robert Mitchum • Roque Cordero • Terry Sanford • Óscar Romero