Melba Pattillo Beals

Melba Joy Patillo Beals is an American journalist and educator who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who were the first to racially integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

7 December 1941

Born on the same birth day (7 December): C. Thomas Howell • Ferenc Novák (writer) • Hack Meyers • Hermann Balck • James Rivière • Kateryna Bilokur • Kevin Séraphin • Krsto Papić • Mary Fallin • Max Zaslofsky • Milan Michálek • Nina Turner • Nita Strauss • Rick Rude • Yuzuru Hanyu

Born in the same month (December 1941): Ed Brinkman • Fionnula Flanagan • J. P. Parisé • Joan Wallach Scott • Kenneth Calman • Mike Hazlewood • Mike Pinder • Nolan Richardson • Roger Wheeler (British Army officer) • Tim Hardin • Tom McGuinness (musician)