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): Ats Purje • Charlotte Casiraghi • David Buttolph • Derwin James • Edward Petherbridge • John Henley (preacher) • Lisa Ann Walter • Sidney Gottlieb • Sven Ulreich • Tim Mayotte
Born in the same month (August 1900): Dorothy Burr Thompson • Ernie Pyle • Estelle Brody • Frances Adaskin • Gilbert Ryle • Gontran de Poncins • Hans Krebs (biochemist) • Helen Morgan (singer) • Holling C. Holling • Ida Browne • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie • Jack Tworkov • Malvina Reynolds • Ruth Norman