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): Adolph Menzel • Chava Alberstein • Corey Taylor • Emma Green (athlete) • Ingrid Michaelson • James MacArthur • Janari Jõesaar • Kate Voegele • Larry Martin • Les Ferdinand • Raheem Sterling • Sam Hunt • Sam Tagataese • Sun Li-jen • Wang Anshi

Born in the same month (December 1903): Antiochos Evangelatos • C. F. Powell • Candido Portinari • Cornell Woolrich • Danilo Blanuša • Earl Hines • Elisha Cook Jr. • Ella Baker • Erskine Caldwell • George Davis Snell • Hardie Albright • Harold Whitlock • John von Neumann • Nikolai Voznesensky • Ray Noble • William Heynes