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): Carl Bosch • Carlos Moyá • Chantal Djotodia • Charles Fleischer • Cor Brom • Douglas R. Campbell • Jimmy Greenhalgh • John Morrison (cricketer) • Mohammad Yousuf (cricketer) • Peter Stormare • René Higuita • Robert Richardson (cinematographer) • Sri Chinmoy • Sulley Muntari • William Hayden English

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)