Wah Chang

Wah Ming Chang was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator.

2 August 1917

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Bertha Lutz • Doris Coley • Goran Gavrančić • Håkon Stenstadvold • Mary-Louise Parker • María Duval • Muriel Bowser • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria • President of Israel • Roy Crimmins • Varvara Gracheva

Born in the same month (August 1917): Barbara Cooney • Caspar Weinberger • Denis Healey • Ebba Haslund • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia • Isabel Sanford • Jack Kirby • Jack Lynch • John Fitch (racing driver) • Leonid Hurwicz • Les Elgart • Matt Christopher • Mel Ferrer • Oliver Crawford • Peanuts Lowrey • Robert Mitchum • Roque Cordero • Sid Gordon • Terry Sanford • Óscar Romero