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Aviator
An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887 as a variation of the French 'aviation', from the Latin 'avis', coined 1863 by G. de la Landelle in "Aviation ou Navigation Aérienne". The term aviatrix is sometimes used for a...
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Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1923 (age 86 years)
Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, with Melungeon ancestry, and raised...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1929
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1977 (age 47 years)
Hal Clement
Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003) better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.
Stubbs was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and died in...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1922
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 2003 (age 81 years)
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1905
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1976 (age 70 years)
Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust (born July 1968 in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany) is a German man known for his illegal landing near Red Square in Moscow in 1987. As an amateur aviator, he flew from Finland to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1968 (age 41 years)
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8...
Date of birth:
- Aug 5, 1930 (age 79 years)
Richard Bach
Richard David Bach (born 23 June 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah, and others. His books espouse his...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1936 (age 73 years)
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1944
Date of death:
- May 21, 1991 (age 46 years)
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1934
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 1968 (age 34 years)
Ziad Jarrah
An aerospace engineering student, Ziad Samir Jarrah (Arabic: زياد سمير جراح, Zīād Samīr Jarrāḥ); (May 11, 1975 – September 11, 2001), was one of the masterminds of the September 11th attacks along with Mohammed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ramzi...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1975
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 2001 (age 26 years)
Roland Garros
Roland Garros (6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918) was an early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I.
Garros was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion and studied at HEC Paris. He started his aviation career in 1909 flying Santos...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1888
Date of death:
- Oct 5, 1918 (age 30 years)
William S. Donaldson
Cmdr. William S. Donaldson III (1944 – August 22, 2001) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran. He became famous as a critic of the US Government's TWA...
Date of birth:
- 1944
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 2001 (age 57 years)
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926, born Erik Weisz later spelled Ehrich Weiss) was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He also was a famous skeptic who set out to expose frauds...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1926 (age 52 years)
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, a former astronaut and United States senator who was the first American and third person to orbit the Earth. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1921 (age 88 years)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃tɛɡzypeˈʀi]) (29 June 1900—31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince, and for his books about aviation adventures, including...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1900
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1944 (age 44 years)
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930) is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969, he was the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1930 (age 80 years)
Henry Farman
Henri Farman (born Henry Farman) (26 May 1874 - 18 July 1958) was a French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. His family was British and he opted for the French nationality in 1937.
Born in Paris in...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1958 (age 84 years)
Milo Burcham
Milo Garrett Burcham (May 24, 1903 - October 20, 1944) was an American aviator. He worked as a stunt pilot, airshow pilot, and test pilot.
Burcham was born in Cadiz, Indiana, and grew up in Whittier, California in the eastern Los Angeles basin....
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1903
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1944 (age 41 years)
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1902
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1974 (age 72 years)
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart (pronounced /ˈɛərhɑrt/ AIR-hart); (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1897
Date of death:
- 1937 (age 39 years)
Claire Lee Chennault
Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958), was an American military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II. His family name is pronounced shen-awlt.
Born in Commerce, Texas, to John Stonewall...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1893
Date of death:
- Jul 27, 1958 (age 64 years)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was an American magazine publisher, lawyer, and pilot. The elder son of U.S. President John F....
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1960
Date of death:
- Jul 16, 1999 (age 38 years)
Louis Blériot
Louis Blériot (1 July 1872 – 2 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft, when he crossed the English Channel. For this achievement, he...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1872
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1936 (age 64 years)
Ruth Chatterton
Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1893 – November 24, 1961) was an American actress.
Born in New York City on Christmas Eve 1893, of English and French extraction to Walter Smith and Lillian Reed Chatterton, she was on Broadway by the age of 14, as a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1893
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1961 (age 67 years)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the second of four children born to Dwight...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1906
Date of death:
- Feb 7, 2001 (age 94 years)
Neal Boortz
Neal A. Boortz, Jr. (born April 6, 1945) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. His nationally-syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, airs throughout the United States on Jones Radio Networks. It is ranked seventh in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1945 (age 64 years)
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्पना चावला; Punjabi: ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003), was an Indian-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She was one of seven crewmembers killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Kalpana Chawla...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1962
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 2003 (age 40 years)
J. R. D. Tata
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904–November 29, 1993) was a pioneer aviator and important businessman of India. He was awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1992 .
J.R.D. Tata was born in Paris, France, the second...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1904
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1993 (age 89 years)
Dick Scobee
Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut who was killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.
Born in Cle Elum,...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1939
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1986 (age 46 years)
Sigmund Jähn
Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German pilot who became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Intercosmos program.
Jähn was born in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, Vogtland, Germany. From 1943 to 1951 he...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1937 (age 72 years)
Marc Garneau
Captain (N) (ret'd) Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, CC, CD, FCASI, MP (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian astronaut, engineer and politician.
Garneau was the first Canadian in space, and has taken part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1949 (age 60 years)
Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson CBE, (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviatrix. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. Johnson flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1903
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1941 (age 37 years)
Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. Reitsch was the first woman to...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1912
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1979 (age 67 years)
Edward O'Hare
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was a naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch...
Date of birth:
- Mar 13, 1914
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1943 (age 29 years)
Steve Fossett
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) was an American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer and the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1944
Date of death:
- Sep 3, 2007 (age 63 years)
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. Out of more than four hundred applicants and then out of five finalists, she was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1937 (age 72 years)
Gherman Titov
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов) (September 11, 1935 – September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the second man to orbit the Earth.
Titov was born in the village of Verkhneye Zhilino in the Altai Krai and went to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1935
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 2000 (age 65 years)
Andrian Nikolayev
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash and Russian: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев), (September 5, 1929–July 3, 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Ethnic Chuvash.
Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 (effectively becoming the third Soviet...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1929
Date of death:
- Jul 3, 2004 (age 74 years)
Pavel Popovich
Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (October 5, 1930 – September 29, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1930
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 2009 (age 79 years)
Valery Bykovsky
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Валерий Фёдорович Быковский; born 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1934 (age 75 years)
Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 - 3 August 1986), was a British-born Kenyan horse trainer and adventurer. She was a record-breaking aviatrix in the pioneer days of aviation, and is primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night....
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1902
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1986 (age 83 years)
Georgi Beregovoi
Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й; April 15, 1921, Fyodorovka, Poltava Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR – June 30, 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on a single space mission, Soyuz 3.
He...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1921
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1995 (age 74 years)
Vladimir Shatalov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
From 1971 to 1987 he was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1927 (age 82 years)
Georgi Shonin
Georgi Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.
Shonin was part...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1935
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 1997 (age 61 years)
Anatoli Filipchenko
Anatoliy Vasil'yevich Filipchenko (Russian: Анатолий Васильевич Филипченко; born February 26, 1928 in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions.
After leaving the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1928 (age 81 years)
Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Горбатко; born December 3, 1934 in Ventsy-Zarya) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.
After leaving the space program in 1982 he taught at the Air...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1934 (age 75 years)
Georgiy Dobrovolskiy
Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolskiy (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Доброво́льский; June 1, 1928, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR – June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
He flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1928
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1971 (age 43 years)
Douglas Bader
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force fighter ace during the Second World War.
In 1928, Bader joined the RAF, but, on 14 December 1931 at...
Date of birth:
- Feb 21, 1910
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1982 (age 72 years)
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
John Gillespie Magee, Junior (June 9, 1922 – December 11, 1941) was an Anglo-American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire during World War II. He was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he joined...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1922
Date of death:
- Dec 11, 1941 (age 19 years)
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer, aviator and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
He was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. His ancestors...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1888
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 1957 (age 68 years)
Charles Kingsford Smith
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC (9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935), often called Charles Kingsford Smith, or by his nickname Smithy, was a well-known early Australian aviator. In 1928, he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1897
Date of death:
- Nov 8, 1935 (age 38 years)
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran (May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation. She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1906
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1980 (age 74 years)
Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, TV presenter, airline pilot, radio show host, record producer, fencer, author, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the metal band Iron Maiden.
Dickinson performed for some...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1958 (age 51 years)
Jim Mollison
James Allan ("Jim") Mollison (19 April 1905 - 30 October 1959) was a famous Scottish pioneer aviator who set many records during the rapid development of aviation in the 1930s.
Born on 19 April 1905 in Glasgow, Scotland Mollison was attracted at an...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1905
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1959 (age 54 years)
Hélène Dutrieu
Hélène Dutrieu (10 July 1877 – 26 June 1961), was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital.
Hélène Dutrieu was born on...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1877
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1961 (age 84 years)
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Curtiss was born in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York to Frank...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1878
Date of death:
- Jul 23, 1930 (age 52 years)
Marie Marvingt
Marie Marvingt (20 February 1875 – 14 December 1963) was a French athlete, mountaineer, and aviator, and the most decorated woman in the history of France. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements and was the first woman to climb many...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1875
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1963 (age 88 years)
Dumitru Prunariu
Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru doˈrin pruˈnarju]; born September 27, 1952) is a retired Romanian astronaut who flew aboard Soyuz 40.
Born on September 27, 1952 in Braşov, Romania, Prunariu graduated from the Physics and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1952 (age 57 years)
Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Александр Иванович Куприн, 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870 in the town of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast - August 25, 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for...
Date of birth:
- 1870
Date of death:
- 1938 (age 68 years)
Louise Thaden
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy.
Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville, Arkansas and attended...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1905
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1979 (age 74 years)
