Mary Jackson (engineer)

Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.

9 April 1921

Born on the same birth date (9 April 1921): Frankie Thomas • Jean-Marie Balestre • Yitzhak Navon

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Bernard Ackah • Curly Lambeau • J. Presper Eckert • Jazmine Sullivan • Jeff Reed (American football) • Jeff Turner • Jim Roberts (ice hockey, born 1940) • Joseph Krumgold • Julian Dash • Mary Killman • Nadey Hakim • Robert Bauer (footballer) • Sara Parkin • Étienne Aignan • Óscar Razo

Born in the same month (April 1921): Angelo DiGeorge • Jake Warren • Jimmy Giuffre • Orunamamu • Robert Cliche • Simin Daneshvar • Thomas Schelling • Warren Spahn • Wilbur Thompson • William Bergsma • Yitzhak Navon