Howard Hughes: The Aviator - Birth
Time: Sunday Dec 24, 1905
Place: Harris County, Texas, U.S.
Details: He was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. However, his certificate of baptism, recorded on October 7, 1906, in the parish register of St. John's Episcopal Church in Keokuk, Iowa, listed his date of birth as December 24, 1905, without any reference to the place of birth.
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