Katharine McCormick

Katharine Dexter McCormick was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill.

27 August 1875

Born on the same birth day (27 August): Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma • Ange Postecoglou • Blake Jenner • Charles Fleischer • Edmund Weiner • Ernie Broglio • G. W. Bailey • George Brecht • Gordon Bashford • Ivan Franko • Jeroen Duyster • Jimmy Greenhalgh • Karel Rachůnek • Kenji Miyazawa • Kirk Francis • Kristen Nygaard • Manny Fernandez (ice hockey) • Mario (singer) • Mark Webber (racing driver) • Michael Mason (cricketer) • Tim Bogert • Tom Berryhill

Born in the same month (August 1875): Agnes Mowinckel • Albert Ketèlbey • Arthur Bernardes • Eugene Lanceray • John Buchan • Leonardo De Lorenzo • Mstislav Dobuzhinsky • Rosa Lemberg • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • William Eccles (physicist)