Oscar Zeta Acosta

Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead.

8 April 1935

Born on the same birth date (8 April 1935): Albert Bustamante

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Carlos Santana (baseball) • Iveta Bartošová • James Lockhart (historian) • Katee Sackhoff • Miller Farr • Momo Kapor • Patricia Girard • Raoul Jobin • Robin Wright • Ron Johnson

Born in the same month (April 1935): Aulis Sallinen • Avery Schreiber • Bud Paxson • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Geoff Braybrooke • Jimmy Makulis • John Oliver (bishop) • Peter Hollingworth • Sarah Kirsch • Stavros Paravas • Theo Angelopoulos