Zelma Watson George

Zelma Watson George was an African-American philanthropist who was famous for being an alternate in the United Nations General Assembly and, as a headliner in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium, the first African American to play a role that was typically played by a white actress.

8 December 1903

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Amir Khan (boxer) • Bhavini Purohit • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson • Bob Brown (offensive lineman) • Bodo Tümmler • Chigusa Nagayo • Claude Balbastre • Dariush Mehrjui • Elizabeth Daryush • Greg Halford • Gregg Allman • John Oster • Matthew Labyorteaux • Meagan Duhamel • Philip Rivers • Ryan Newman (racing driver) • Sam Kinison • Scott McTominay • Thatcher Demko • Thomas Cech • Toshiaki Kawada • Yuliya Krevsun

Born in the same month (December 1903): Candido Portinari • Ernst Krenkel • Erskine Caldwell • George Davis Snell • Johannes Heesters • John von Neumann • Joseph Cornell • Una Merkel