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 • Anne Marie d'Orléans • C. S. Forester • Charles Rolls • Daryl Dragon • David Bentley • Frode Fjellheim • Hermann Weingärtner • Jessie Mei Li • Joel Kovel • Juliana Cannarozzo • Mase • Sonny Sharrock

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