Josh Gibson
Joshua Gibson was an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues. Baseball historians consider Gibson among the best power hitters and catchers in baseball history. In 1972, he became the second Negro league player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
21 December 1911
Born on the same birth day (21 December): Andy Dick • Bartolomé Masó • Charles Dera • Chris Evert • Dave Kingman • Edward Hoagland • Frank Fenner • George W. Fuller • Giuseppina Leone • Hanif Mohammad • Heinrich Böll • Hermann Raupach • Hu Jintao • Khris Davis • Leon MacDonald • Leopold von Ranke • Lloyd Axworthy • Matías Almeyda • Nic Maddinson • Otis (wrestler) • Phil Donahue • Riccardo Saponara • Ryuji Sasai • Terry Mills (basketball) • Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
Born in the same month (December 1911): Anna Russell • Broderick Crawford • Calvin Griffith • Dal Stivens • Hortense Calisher • Kenneth Patchen • Louise Bourgeois • Naguib Mahfouz • Nicholas P. Dallis • Niels Kaj Jerne • Nino Rota • Qian Xuesen • Spike Jones • Stan Kenton • Wil van Beveren • Władysław Szpilman