This Day in Auto History:

8.21.1885 William Francis O’Neil of the General Tire & Rubber Company is born in Akron, OH 8.21.1904 Automotive restoration authority Richard Charles Wheatley is born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England 8.21.1932 John Charles Curran Jr., Financing Manager for the Ford Motor Credit Company 1962-1969 and later an executive with the White Motor Company, is born in New York City 8.21.1948 Racer Cliff Hucul is born 8.21.1961 The first 1962 Ford Thunderbird is produced

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick