Ruth Johnson Colvin

Ruth Johnson Colvin is the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in December 2006. She turned 100 in December 2016.

16 December 1916

Born on the same birth day (16 December): A. N. R. Robinson • Alcides Escobar • Antonio Vega (singer) • Craig White • Daniel Narcisse • Elizabeth Carter • Eulalio González • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher • Mikkel Bødker • Nabi Bakhsh Baloch • Nicolas Sidjakov • Pietro Perdichizzi • Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey • Shane Black • V. S. Pritchett • Zoltán Kodály • Éric Bélanger

Born in the same month (December 1916): Ahmed Ben Bella • Betty Grable • Dino Risi • Elena Garro • Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann • Ely Jacques Kahn Jr. • Hugo Peretti • Leonard Weisgard • Maurice Wilkins • Miguel Arraes • Penelope Fitzgerald • Roy Ward Baker • Shirley Jackson • Walt Arfons • Walt McPherson • Wan Li • Yekaterina Budanova