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): Antonia Fraser • Blake Adams • Cesar Millan • Diana Scarwid • Edward Patten • G. W. Bailey • Hugh Orde • Jessie Mei Li • Jimmy Greenhalgh • John Hay Whitney • Kevan Hurst • Martha Raye • Milano Collection A. T. • René Higuita • Roelof Kruisinga • Romain Amalfitano • Sarah Neufeld • Stephen Morris (American football) • Steve McDowall • Vincent Auriol

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)