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): Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney • John Gavin • K. C. Kamalasabayson • Manolis Angelopoulos • Mary Pickford • Mehran Ghassemi • Shecky Greene • Steve Howe • Tine Asmundsen • Tony Barton (footballer) • Viktória Forster • William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke • Yemane Tsegay

Born in the same month (April 1935): Bob Gutowski • Douglas Hill • Giovanni Cianfriglia • Hodding Carter III • John Oliver (bishop) • Kenneth Mars • Sarah Kirsch • Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton • Theo Angelopoulos • Trevor Griffiths