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 • David Rowbotham • Ernie Broglio • George Brecht • Hermann Weingärtner • Joel Grant • José Vidro • Juan Fernando Cobo • Juhan Parts • Mario (singer) • Pokwang • Sarah Neufeld • Sebastian Kurz • Sergey Sirotkin • William Least Heat-Moon

Born in the same month (August 1875): Agnes Mowinckel • Arthur Bernardes • John Buchan • Leonardo De Lorenzo • Rosa Lemberg • William Eccles (physicist)