1890 Dame Agatha Christie – British detective novelist and playwright who wrote numerous books, and created the beloved characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

When Amy was in middle and high school, Agatha Christie was her favorite author. I remember being surprised.

1907 Fay Wray – Canadian-born actress (King Kong, Dr. X, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Four Feathers) She appeared in the Perry Mason episodes The Case of the Fatal Fetish, The Case of the Watery Witness, and The Case of the Prodigal Parent

She had a long career. I remember here in the Perry Mason episodes.

1898 William Burroughs, age 43 - US inventor with little formal education, who invented the first commercially successful adding machine and founded the American Arithmomter Company of St. Louis. The company later became Burroughs Adding Machine Company. His earliest version of the machine, like other adding machines of the time, was accurate but impractical. However, in 1892 he patented a practical adding machine that would become a commercial success

First hubby worked for Burroughs Corporation for many years. When he got the job, computers that filled a whole room and had to be kept very cool and a special floor built for it/them. It was bought out by another company and no longer called Burroughs.