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): Allen Butler Talcott • Ana de la Reguera • CeeDee Lamb • Donita Sparks • Douglas Trumbull • Evripidis Stylianidis • Gary Carter • Jang Yong • Joan Sebastian • John Madden (director) • Julius Seljamaa • Mark Blundell • Nnedi Okorafor • Pancha Carrasco • Richard Neutra • Viktória Forster • William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

Born in the same month (April 1935): Albert Bustamante • Bhama Srinivasan • Costas Ferris • Dominique Venner • Frank Schepke • Geoff Braybrooke • Jimmy Makulis • Lennart Risberg • Pedro Ramos • Sarah Kirsch • Stavros Paravas • Thomas Kean • Trevor Griffiths