John T. Scopes

John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, and was found guilty and fined $100.

3 August 1900

Born on the same birth date (3 August 1900): Ernie Pyle

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley • Dominic Moore • Frano Botica • Konstantin Melnikov • Linda Howard • Luis Robert Jr. • Martin Sheen • Mel Tolkin • Nick Harvey • Rupert Brooke • Stanley Baldwin • Steven Millhauser • Tim Mayotte • Vic Vogel • Wael Gomaa • William Kennedy Dickson • Zac Gallen

Born in the same month (August 1900): Cecil Howard Green • Dorothy Burr Thompson • Ernie Pyle • Ernst Krenek • Estelle Brody • Frances Adaskin • Gilbert Ryle • Gontran de Poncins • Hans Krebs (biochemist) • Helen Morgan (singer) • Hellmuth Walter • Holling C. Holling • Ida Browne • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie • Jack Tworkov • Lisy Fischer • Margaret Utinsky • Margret Boveri • Otto Nothling • Philip Phillips (archaeologist) • Ruth Bonner