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): Allu Arjun • Barbara Kingsolver • Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma • Clarence Hudson White • Edmund Husserl • Erwin Keller • Frédérick Bousquet • Izzy Stradlin • John Arbuthnott (microbiologist) • John Schneider (screen actor) • Khaled Badra • Lavinia Valbonesi • Mary Pickford • Mary W. Gray • Melvin Calvin • Royston Drenthe • Saygrace • Taran Noah Smith • Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova • Viktória Forster

Born in the same month (April 1935): Bobby Vinton • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Christos Yannaras • Costas Ferris • Donald Lynden-Bell • Dudley Moore • Frank Schepke • Geoff Braybrooke • Hodding Carter III • Jimmy Makulis • John Oliver (bishop) • Kenneth Mars • Larry McDonald • Lennart Risberg • Otis Rush • Paul Chambers • Peter Hollingworth • Ron Morris (pole vaulter) • Stavros Paravas • Theo Angelopoulos • Thomas Kean • Trevor Griffiths