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): Andres Kasekamp • Christopher Nicole • Chuy Bravo • Fay Bainter • Hugo Blick • Josef Hyrtl • Lampros Choutos • Nikola Vaptsarov • Patrick Fabian • Pete Alonso • Theodor Schwann • Yasiel Puig

Born in the same month (December 1941): Beau Bridges • Dan Hicks (singer) • Daniel Schmid • Dave Dee • Ellen Willis • Fionnula Flanagan • Geoff Hurst • Intikhab Alam • J. Frank Wilson • J. P. Parisé • Ken Campbell • Lee Myung-bak • Marty Riessen • Roger Wheeler (British Army officer) • Sam Andrew