March 21 - Ayrton Senna, automobile racer (d. 1994)
The main figure, Clerfayt, is an automobile racer who goes to a Swiss hospital to visit a fellow racer, Holman.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Heuers were popular watches among automobile racers, both professionals and amateurs.
He was a professional automobile racer who was Pikes Peak Hill Climb champion.
Bruno was an automobile racer and he died on a practice for the Moroccan Grand Prix.
Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer.
Those achievements make him one of the preeminent Canadian automobile racers of the first half of the twentieth century.
Wilbur Rakestraw (born June 6, 1928) is a retired automobile racer from Dallas, Georgia.
He had a brief career in film making, coupling that as a squash player and then eventually settling as an automobile racer.
October 4 - Barney Oldfield (born 1878), automobile racer.