Astronauts & Astronomers Chronology

Births, deaths, defining moments of Astronauts, Cosmonauts & Astronomers

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883
Mar 08Albumasar [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies.Ref: 5
1416
Apr 23Blaise/Blasius of Parma Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies.Ref: 5
1436
Jun 06Regiomontanus (Johannes Moeller) prepares astronomical tables, is born.Ref: 5
1449
Oct 27Ulugh Beg a USSR astronomer, dies at 56.Ref: 5
1473
Feb 19Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick), heliocentric theory, is born in Torún, Poland.Ref: 4
1514
Feb 16Rhäticus [Rheticus] Austrian astronomer/mathematician, is born.Ref: 5
1535
Feb 18Agrippa von Nettesheim German royal astrologer, dies at 48.Ref: 5
1543
May 24Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick) Polish astronomer: the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe, dies in Frauenburg, Poland at age 70.Ref: 68
1546
Dec 14Astronomer Tycho Brahe is born in Knudstrup Denmark. (Also Ref. Almanac of Famous People, ISBN 0-7876-0044-X)Ref: 5
1552
Apr 21Peter Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz] German astronomer, dies at 50.Ref: 5
1555
May 25Gemma Frisius Frisian geographer/astronomer, dies at 46.Ref: 5
1560
Aug 21Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy.Ref: 5
1564
Feb 15Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer who ran afoul of the Catholic Church for defending the Copernican system, which maintained that the earth revolves around the sun, is born.Ref: 68
Mar 09David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star), is born.Ref: 5
1571
May 16Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM.Ref: 5
Dec 27Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician who announced the first and second laws of planetary motion. He is known as the "father of modern astronomy", is born in Württemberg Germany.Ref: 68
1575
Jul 25Christoph Scheiner Germany, astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1586
Dec 06Niccoli Zucchi, Italian astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1587
Jan 08Johannes Fabricius Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots), is born.Ref: 5
1592
May 01Johann A Schall von Bell German missionaries/astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1595
Jul 09Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe.Ref: 5
1601
Oct 13Tycho Brahe greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague.Ref: 5
Oct 24Astronomer Tycho Brahe, the greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague at age 54.Ref: 68
1604
Oct 08The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sightedRef: 5
1611
Jan 28Johannes Hevelius Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger), is born.Ref: 5
1613
Jan 28Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune.Ref: 5
1616
Feb 26Galileo is ordered to renounce support of Copernicus's heliocentrism theory by Pope Paul V at inquest.Ref: 5
1617
May 07David Fabricius German astronomer, dies at 53.Ref: 5
1618
May 15Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law.Ref: 2
1620
Aug 07Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft.Ref: 5
1624
Dec 26Simon Marius astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54.Ref: 5
1629
Apr 14Christiaan Huygens Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings), is born.Ref: 5
1630
Nov 15Johannes Kepler ‘founder of modern optics’: formulated eyeglass design for nearsightedness and farsightedness; coined term: Dioptrice, describing real, virtual, upright and inverted images and magnification; discovered the properties of total internal reflection; astronomer: first to correctly explain planetary motion; used stellar parallax caused by the Earth’s orbit to measure distance to the stars; suggested that Sun rotates about its axis, that tides are caused by the Moon; formed basis of integral calculus; derived the universally accepted birth year of Christ; writer: Astronomia Pars Optica, Dioptrice, Stereometrica Doliorum; dies at age 58.Ref: 68
1633
Feb 13Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.Ref: 5
1638
Jan 10Niels Stensen Danish astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1641
Jan 03Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22.Ref: 5
1646
Aug 19John Flamsteed first astronomer royal of England, is born.Ref: 5
1650
Jul 18Christoph Scheiner German astronomer, dies at 74.Ref: 5
1655
Sep 19Jan Luyts astronomer; author: Astronomica Institutio, Introductio ad Geographiam; is born.Ref: 4
1656
Nov 08Edmond Halley, mathematician and astronomer who predicted the return of the comet that is named for him, is born.Ref: 2
1670
May 21Niccoli Zucchi, Italian astronomer, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1673
Jul 24Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.Ref: 5
1675
Mar 04John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.Ref: 5
1678
Dec 03Edmund Halley receives Master of Arts degree from Queen's College, Oxford.Ref: 5
1679
Apr 03Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig.Ref: 5
May 14Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1687
Jan 28Johannes Hevelius astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday.Ref: 5
1695
Jul 08Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) and physicist, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
1710
Apr 25James Ferguson astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10James Short, English optician and astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1711
May 18Ruggiero G Boscovich [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1713
Mar 15Nicolas Louis de Lacaille astronomer who mapped the Southern Hemisphere, is born.Ref: 5
1719
Dec 31John Flamsteed, English, first Astronomer Royal, founder of the Greenwich Observatory, dies at age 73.Ref: 5
1720
Feb 10Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England.Ref: 5
1729
Jan 02Johann, Daniel Titius, Prussian astronomer and physicist, is born.Ref: 70
1730
Jun 26Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects", is born.Ref: 5
1732
Apr 08David Rittenhouse, American astronomer and inventor, is born.Ref: 70
1737
Mar 12Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.Ref: 5
1738
Nov 15Sir William Hershel, British astronomer who discovered Uranus, is born.Ref: 2
1742
Jan 14English astronomer and mathematician, Edmond Halley, who observed the comet that now bears his name, dies at age 85.Ref: 68
1744
Feb 21Eise J Eisinga Frisia, built planetarium Franeker, is born.Ref: 5
1746
Jul 16Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the first asteroid (Ceres), is born.Ref: 5
1750
Mar 16Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, first modern woman astronomer, is born. Ref 
1762
Jul 13James Bradley 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies.Ref: 5
1764
Mar 17George Parker English astronomer, dies.Ref: 5
Apr 14Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer, dies at 84.Ref: 5
1767
Jun 27Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, is born.Ref: 70
1768
Jun 14James Short, English optician and astronomer, dies at age 58.Ref: 70
1773
Mar 26Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant), is born.Ref: 5
1774
Apr 28Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse, is born.Ref: 5
1784
Jul 22Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel German astronomer and mathematician: first to triangulate the heavens by observing the parallax of the star 61 Cygni [the change in its angular position as the Earth moved between opposite extremes of its orbit]: Bessel estimated the distance of the star to be 10·1 light years [the Bessel function]; is born.Ref: 4
1786
Feb 28D François J Arago French astronomer/physicist/politician, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 20John Goodricke English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21.Ref: 5
1789
Oct 25Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1792
Mar 07Sir John Frederick William Herschel, astronomer, son of William Herschel and brother of Caroline Herschel, is born in Slough England.Ref: 68
1793
Apr 15Friedrich Struve Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers, is born.Ref: 5
1796
Feb 29[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet Belgian astronomer/meteorology, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 26David Rittenhouse, American astronomer and inventor, dies at age 64.Ref: 70
Dec 11Johann, Daniel Titius, Prussian astronomer and physicist, dies at age 67.Ref: 70
1797
Jan 04Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer; made first map of moon, is born.Ref: 70
1799
Mar 22F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 18William Lassel, English astronomer, discoverer of some of the satellites of Uranus & Neptune, is born.Ref: 5
1801
Jul 27George Biddle Airyy 7th Astronomer Royal, is born.Ref: 5
1804
Mar 08Alvan Clark, telescope manufacture, is born.Ref: 2
1806
Oct 09Benjamin Banneker astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74.Ref: 5
1807
Apr 04Joseph Jérôme Le Francais de Lalande French astronomer, dies.Ref: 5
1811
Feb 09Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies.Ref: 5
Mar 11Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 06James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington, is born.Ref: 5
1812
Jun 09John Galle, German astronomer, first to sight Neptune, is born.Ref: 17
1814
Aug 13Anders Jonas Angstrom, Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy, is born.Ref: 5
1817
Apr 12Charles Messier "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects,", dies.Ref: 5
1818
Jul 30Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the U.S, is born.Ref: 2
1819
Jun 05John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer co-discover (Neptune), is born.Ref: 68
1822
Apr 25Frederick "William" Herschel German/British astronomer, dies at 83.Ref: 5
Aug 25German-born English astronomer. discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1824
Feb 07William Higgins, discovered nature of spiral "nebulae", is born.Ref: 5
Sep 27Benjamin Gould, American astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1826
Jul 22Giuseppe Piazzi discoverer of first asteroid, dies.Ref: 5
1827
Dec 16John A C Oudemans Dutch geographer/astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1829
Oct 15Asaph Hall, discoverer of Mars satellites Phobos and Deimos, is born.Ref: 5
1835
Mar 04Giovanni Schiaparelli Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, astronomer who named Mars "canals", is born.Ref: 5
Aug 11George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal.Ref: 5
Aug 25NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel.Ref: 5
1836
May 17Joseph Norman Lockyer, British astonomer, discovered helium, is born.Ref: 2
1837
Mar 07Henry Draper, American physician and amateur astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1838
Feb 22Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discoverer of hydrogen in Sun, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03George W Hill US astronomer (Moon orbit), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Nathaniel Bowditch astronomer, author: New American Practical Navigator; dies at age 64.Ref: 4
Dec 12Sherburne W Burnham US, astronomer (binary stars), is born.Ref: 5
1840
Mar 02Heinrich Olbers German astronomer (discoverer of comets & asteroids), dies at 81.Ref: 5
1842
Feb 26Camille Flammarion Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Hermann Karl Vogel, German astonomer, is born.Ref: 2
1843
Jun 07Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
1845
Jan 13Felix Tisserand, French astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1846
Mar 17Friedrich W Bessel German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61.Ref: 5
Apr 28Johann E Backlund Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids), is born.Ref: 5
1848
Jan 09Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, first modern woman astronomer, dies at age 97. Ref 
1850
Mar 27Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer; made first map of moonerman astronomer; made first map of moon, dies at age 53.Ref: 70
1851
Jan 19Johannes C Kapteyn Dutch astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1852
Feb 13Johan L E Dreyer Danish astronomer (New generation catalogue of nebulae), is born.Ref: 5
1855
Mar 13Percival Lowell, astronomer who predicted the discovery of the planet Pluto, is born.Ref: 2
1857
Sep 17Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pioneer in rocket & space research, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 16Edward Emerson Barnard Tennesee, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite), is born.Ref: 5
1858
Feb 15William Pickering Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn), is born.Ref: 68
1861
Nov 10Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri), is born.Ref: 5
1862
Feb 03Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87.Ref: 5
Apr 11William W Campbell US astronomer/director Lick Observatory, is born.Ref: 5
1863
Apr 10Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77.Ref: 5
Dec 11Annie Jump Cannon astronomer: discovered five stars; National Academy of Science Draper Medal-winner; is born.Ref: 4
1864
May 29A H Borgesius Dutch amateur astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Robert G Aitken US astronomer (Binary Stars), is born.Ref: 5
1865
Feb 09James Gilliss, American naval officer; founded the U.S. Naval Observatory, dies at age 53.Ref: 70
1867
Jul 05Andrew Ellicott Douglass, astronomer and archaeologist, is born.Ref: 2
Jul 28Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
1868
Jun 29George Ellery Hale, American astronomer, is born.Ref: 17
1870
Dec 22Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse.Ref: 5
1871
Jan 12Paul Guthnick German astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
May 11Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
May 11Sir John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies in London at age 79.Ref: 68
1872
May 31Charles G Abbot US, astronomer (Constant Sun), is born.Ref: 5
1873
Jan 02Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 08Ejnar Hertzsprung Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), is born.Ref: 5
1874
Feb 17[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet Belgian astronomer/sociologist, dies at 77.Ref: 5
1875
Apr 11Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer, discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies at age 85.Ref: 5
1876
Dec 20Walter S Adams US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson (1923-46), is born.Ref: 5
1877
Sep 23Urbain JJ Leverrier codiscoverer of Neptune, dies.Ref: 5
Oct 25Henry Norris Russell astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), is born.Ref: 5
1879
May 28Milutin Milankovic Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist, is born.Ref: 5
1880
Oct 05William Lassel, English astronomer, discoverer of some of the satellites of Uranus & Neptune, dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1882
Jan 24Harold Babcock, American astronomer, is born.Ref: 70
Apr 25Johann CF Zöllner German astronomer (astro photography), dies.Ref: 5
Nov 20Henry Draper, American physician and amateur astronomer, dies at age 45.Ref: 70
Dec 28Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, is born.Ref: 2
1884
Jan 28Lucien H d'Azambuja France, astronomer (chromosphere of sun), is born.Ref: 5
1885
May 29Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich British astronomer (theory of relativity), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 02Harlow Shapley, astronomer who discovered the Sun is not at the center of the galaxy, is born.Ref: 2
1888
Apr 26Aleksandr Mikhailov USSR, astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1889
Apr 19Warren De La Rue astronomer/chemist, dies.Ref: 5
Jun 28Maria Mitchell astronomer: first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1st U.S. woman to become a professor of astronomy; dies at age 71.Ref: 4
Nov 20Edwin Hubble astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift), is born in Marshfield, Missouri.Ref: 5
1890
Apr 06André L Danjon French astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1892
Jan 02George B Airy English astronomer/writer, dies at 90.Ref: 5
Jan 21John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer co-discover (Neptune), dies at age 73.Ref: 68
1893
Feb 12Marcel G J Minnaert Dutch astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
May 24W H Walter Baade German/US astronomer (Andromeda), is born.Ref: 5
1894
Jun 25Hermann Oberth Germany, founded modern astronautics, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 17Georges Lemaitre, Belgian astronomer, is born.Ref: 2
1896
Oct 20Felix Tisserand, French astronomer, dies at age 51.Ref: 70
Nov 26Benjamin Gould, American astronomer, dies at age 72.Ref: 70
1897
Feb 27Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (Lyot filter), is born.Ref: 5
1898
Feb 14Fritz Zwicky Swiss astronomer (super nova), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Hugh Dryden, American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65), is born.Ref: 70
Dec 21Ira S Bowen US physicist/astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), is born.Ref: 5
1900
Apr 28Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer; hypothesized "Oort Cloud", is born.Ref: 5
May 05Mervyn A Ellison British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), is born.Ref: 5
1903
Aug 31Sir Bernard Lovell England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank, is born.Ref: 5
1904
Dec 28Clabon W Allen Australian/British astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1905
Oct 22Karl Jansky discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 07Gerard Kuiper Dutch/US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune), is born.Ref: 5
1906
Feb 04Clyde William Tombaugh US, astronomer (discovered Pluto), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 27Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Mar 20Pavel P Parenago Russian astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 28Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way), is born.Ref: 5
1908
Jan 21Bengt Strömgren Göteborg Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud), is born.Ref: 5
1909
Jul 11Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies.Ref: 5
1910
Mar 19Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 10William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, diesRef: 2
Jul 04Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and senator, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Jul 10John Galle, German astronomer, first to sight Neptune, dies.Ref: 17
1911
Dec 22Grote Reber US, astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope), is born.Ref: 5
1912
Mar 06Madge Adam, astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
May 31Martin Schwarzschild US astronomer (evolution), is born.Ref: 5
1914
Apr 16George W Hill US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76.Ref: 5
Sep 07James Alfred Van Allen, discovered and named the two radiation belts surrounding the Earth, is born.Ref: 2
1915
Jun 24Sir Fred Hoyle cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory, is born.Ref: 5
1916
May 11Karl Schwarzschild German astronomer (s-effect), dies.Ref: 5
Nov 12Percival Lowell, astronomer who predicted the discovery of the planet Pluto, dies in Flagstaff AZ.Ref: 4
1918
Sep 27Sir Martin Ryle Britain, radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82, is born.Ref: 5
1920
May 22Thomas Gold astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe), is born.Ref: 5
1921
Mar 11Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83.Ref: 5
Apr 15Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Cornelis de Jager Dutch astronomer (Sun), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 18John H Glenn Jr Cambridge Ohio, Col USMC astronaut (Mer 6, Sen-D-Oh), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 12Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies.Ref: 5
1923
Feb 06Edward E Barnard US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65.Ref: 5
Mar 04Patrick Moore England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 12Walter M Schirra Jr Hackensack NJ, Captain USN/astronaut (one of the original Mecury Seven, Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 25Francis Graham-Smith British astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 18Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3: first American astronaut to travel in space, Ap 14), is born.Ref: 5
1924
Feb 28Chris Kraft (NASA spokesman: voice of Mission Control during the Mercury and Gemini space missions), is born.Ref: 3
Mar 01Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton Sparta WI, Major USAF/astronaut (Apollo 18), is born.Ref: 5
May 11Antony Hewish radio astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
1925
May 01Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder CO, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 26Pavel Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 13Henry C Gordon USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), is born.Ref: 5
1926
Jan 11Lev Stepanovich Demin Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Konstantin P Feoktistov Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Virgil Grissom Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Virgil I [Gus] Grissom astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 17Karl G Henize Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51F), is born.Ref: 5
1927
Mar 06(Leroy) Gordon Cooper U.S. astronaut: one of original seven Mercury astronauts [orbited earth 22 times aboard Faith 7 (Mercury 9): May 15, 1963]; flew on Gemini 5 [1965], set flight record of 190 hours, 55 minutes, orbiting the earth 120 times, is born in Shawnee OK.Ref: 4
Mar 16Vladimir M Komarov Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 23Elliot M See Jr Dallas Texas, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 08Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10), is born.Ref: 5
1928
Feb 23Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Frank (Frederick) Borman II, Apollo astronaut, former president of former Eastern Airlines, is born in Gary IN.Ref: 4
Mar 25James A. Lovell Jr, USN/astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13): first to complete 4 spaceflights, first to make 2 flights to the Moon: aboard Gemini 7 [1965: spent 14 days in space] for rendezvous in orbit with Gemini 6; commander of Gemini 12 [Nov 1966: last Gemini mission]; command module pilot of Apollo 8 [Dec 1968: man’s first flight around the moon]; commander of Apollo 13 [Apr 1970: planned lunar landing that was aborted after an explosion on Apollo service module, is born in Cleveland OH.Ref: 4
Jun 01Georgi T Dobrovolsky Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 04Russell L Rogers USAF/astronaut (X-20), is born.Ref: 5
1929
Mar 23Albert H Crews astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 14William Edgar Thornton Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10James A. McDivitt NASA astronaut: commander: Gemini 4 [first space-walk mission], Apollo 9 [Lunar Module tested for first time in earth orbit]; first American Astronaut to reach rank of general, is born.Ref: 4
Sep 05Andrian G Nikolayev USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III Soyuz 9), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 05Richard F Gordon Jr Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut, NASA astronaut [walked in space on Gemini 11: 1966], orbited the moon on Apollo 12 [1969], is born in Seattle WA.Ref: 4
Dec 28Maarten Schmidt Netherlands/US astronomer (quasars), is born.Ref: 5
1930
Jan 05Edward Galven Givens Jr Quanah TX, Major USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 17Thomas P Stafford Oklahoma, astronaut (Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 23William Reid Pogue Okemah OK, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 18Theodore C Freeman Haverford PA, captain USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 17James Benson Irwin Pittsburgh PA, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), is born.Ref: 5
May 07Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 18Don Leslie Lind Midvale UT, astronaut (STS 51-B), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 02Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr., NASA astronaut: piloted Gemini 5, commanded Gemini 11, walked on moon [Apollo 12], is born in Philadelphia PA.Ref: 4
Jun 23Donn F Eisele Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 22Yuri P Artyukhin cosmonaut (Soyuz 14), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 05Neil Armstrong Ohio, X-15 pilot, first Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 17Edgar Dean Mitchell Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 17Thomas P Stafford Weatherford Ok, USAF/astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 24John W Young SF CA, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 05Pavel R Popovich Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 31Michael Collins, Major General, NASA astronaut: Apollo 11 command module pilot on first moon landing mission [he remained in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on lunar surface]; author: Apollo 11 First Moon Landing [Countdown to Space], is born in Rome Italy.Ref: 68
Nov 14Edward H White II San Antonio TX, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 22Owen K Garriott Enid, OK, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Theodore C Freeman PA, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1931
Feb 24Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 02Duane F Graveline Newport VT, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28), is born.Ref: 5
May 09Vance DeVoe Brand Longmont CO, astronaut (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 30John Swigert Jr. NASA astronaut: flew on Apollo 13: said, “Houston, we have a problem!”; is born in Denver CO.Ref: 4
Dec 30Charles A Bassett II Dayton OH, Captain USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1932
Jan 03Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 07Alfred M Worden Jackson MI, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19Joseph P Kerwin Oak Park IL, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut (Skylab 2), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 15Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan (LaVern) Bean, fourth man to set foot on the moon (on Nov 19, 1969), is born in Wheeler TX.Ref: 4
Mar 16Ronnie Walter Cunningham Creston IA, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 24Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Alexei A Gubarev cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup), is born.Ref: 5
May 25Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 06David R. Scott NASA astronaut: flew on Gemini 8, Command Module pilot [Apollo 9], walked and drove first Lunar Rover on the moon as commander of Apollo 15, is born.Ref: 4
Jul 25Paul J Weitz Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 22Gerald P Carr Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 26Joe H Engle Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 18Nikolai N Rukavishnikov cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 26Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile AL, Major USMC/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 12Jake Garn (Sen-R-Ut)/astronaut (STS 51D), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 01Robert T Herres Denver CO, USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1933
Jan 01James A Abrahamson USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 16Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 18Vladimir Yevgrafovich Bugrov cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 12Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 22John A Llewellyn Cardiff Wales, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 19Viktor I Patsayev USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 16Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 10Yevgeny V Khrunov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 17William A Anders Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 14Fred W Haise Jr, Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 21Henry Hartsfield Jr Birmingham AL, astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A), is born.Ref: 5
1934
Mar 09Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, first man into space (aboard Vostok 1), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Eugene (Andrew) Cernan, Captain USN/astronaut: pilot: Gemini 9 [June, 1966]; crew member: Apollo 17 [Dec, 1972] moon landing, is born in Chicago IL.Ref: 4
May 20Alexei A Leonov cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, Apollo-Soyuz), is born.Ref: 5
May 30Alexei A Leonov Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 05F Curtis Michel LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 13Alexei S Yeliseyev cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 22Louise Fletcher actress: High School High, Two Moon Junction series, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Final Notice, Flowers in the Attic, Invaders from Mars, A Summer to Remember, Natural Enemies, Lady in Red, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is born.Ref: 4
Aug 02Valery Bykovsky cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 25Valery F Bykovsky USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V Soyuz 22 31/39), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 25John S Bull Memphis TN, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 09Carl (Edward) Sagan Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Dragons of Eden [1978]; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Broca’s Brain, Cosmos; astronomer: “Billions and billions of stars...”; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 03Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Boris Valentinovich Volynov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21), is born.Ref: 5
1935
Jan 01Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 04Kenneth Money Canada, astronaut (STS 42-alt), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 07Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35, Apollo-Soyuz), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 01Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 15Roger B Chaffee Grand Rapids MI, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 05Philip K Chapman Melbourne Australia, astronaut (Apollo 14 support), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Donald Lynden-Bell British astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 03Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 08Vitaly I Sevastyanov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9 Soyuz 18B), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 03Georgi S Shonin cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 19F Story Musgrave Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 11Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut, second man in space, first man to spend more than a day in space (25 hours in Vostok 2 in 1961), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 03Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 25Russell "Rusty" L Schweickart Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 10Ronald E Evans St Francis KS, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 23Vladislav N Volkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22John L Finley USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1936
Feb 12Fang Lizhi Chinese astrophysicist/dissident, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 29Jack Lousma Astronaut Hall of Famer: member of Skylab space station crew [1973], commanded third orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia [1982], is born in Grand Rapids MI.Ref: 4
Mar 17Thomas K Mattingly II Chicago IL, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 01Charles G Fullerton Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 11Charles Gordon Fullerton Roch, USAF/ast (STS T-1, T-3, T-5, 3, 51F), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 08Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Robert Allan Ridley Parker New York NY, PhD/astronaut (STS-9, STS-35), is born.Ref: 5
1937
Feb 13Sigmund Jähn German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 16Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 04Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, Russian astronaut, first woman in space (Vostok 6), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 12Igor Petrovich Volk Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 17Eduard N Stepanov Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 31Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jun 08Bruce McCandless II Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 18Vitali M Zholobov cosmonaut (Soyuz 21), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 27Joseph P Allen IV Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 11Robert Crippen Beaumont TX, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 1, 7, 41C, 41G), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 12Richard H Truly Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 26Boris Yegorov cosmonaut (Voskhod 1), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 23Karol Joseph Bobko New York NY, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 6, STS 51D, STS 51J), is born.Ref: 5
1938
Jan 16William Pickering pioneer US stellar spectroscopist, predicted Pluto, dies.Ref: 68
Jan 17William H Pickering astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79.Ref: 5
Feb 03Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 21George Ellery Hale, American astronomer, dies.Ref: 17
1939
Jan 20Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe Indian astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28John M Fabian Goosecreek TX, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 7, STS 51G), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 29O P Kolomitsev cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 03Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 13Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 08George William Reed astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14William Benjamin Lenoir Miami FL, astronaut (STS-5), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 07Donald L Holmquest Dallas TX, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 06Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 14M N Fathulin cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 19Francis Scobee Commander of the ill-fated US space shuttle, Challenger; killed in Challenger explosion Jan 28, 1986, is born.Ref: 4
Aug 16Valeri V Ryumin cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 07S David Griggs Portland Oregon, astronaut (STS 51D, STS 33), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 02Yuri N Glazkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 24), is born.Ref: 5
1940
Jan 27Brian T O'Leary Boston MA, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 07Viktor Petrovich Savinykh USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 04Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Georgi Ivan Ivanov first Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 28Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 28Gennadi M Strekalov cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 25Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 27Brian T O'Leary Boston MA, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
1941
Jan 07Frederick Drew Gregory Washington DC, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51-B, 33, 44), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 01Michael L Lampton Williamsport PA, astronaut (STS-45), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 21Dirk D Frimout Belgium, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 24Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., radio astronomer and physicist, is born.Ref: 2
Apr 11Frederick "Rick" Hauck Long Beach CA, astronaut (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Annie Jump Cannon astronomer: discovered five stars; National Academy of Science Draper Medal-winner; dies at age 77.Ref: 4
Apr 14Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 18M S Longair astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4), is born.Ref: 5
May 27AH Borgesius tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76.Ref: 5
Jul 20Vladimir A Lyakhov cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 05Leonid D Kizim cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 27Yuri V Malyshev cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 15Miroslaw Hermaszewski first Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30), is born.Ref: 5
1942
Jan 01Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 08Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 10Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 12Vladimir Sergeyevich Kozelsky cosmonaut (Soyuz 24 backup), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 23Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 29Arnaldo Mendez Cuba, first Cuban in space (Soyuz 38), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 29Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 13Donald E Williams Lafayette IN, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51D, STS 34), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Anatoli Nikolayevich Berezovoi Enem Adygeya Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 14Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 24Valeri Abramovich Voloshin Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 27Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6, TM-18), is born.Ref: 5
May 12Dumitru Dediu Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40 backup), is born.Ref: 5
May 13Vladimir A Dzhanibekov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Anthony Wayne England Indpls IN, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F), is born.Ref: 5
May 21Robert C Springer St Louis, Colonel USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 10Pyotr I Klimuk cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 13Robert L Stewart Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 26John E Blaha San Antonio, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 29William Nelson (Rep-D-Fla), astronaut (STS 61C), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 22Guion S. Bluford Jr. astronaut: first African-American on space shuttle missions, is born in Philadelphia PA.Ref: 4
1943
Jan 14Shannon W Lucid Shanghai China, astronaut (STS 51G, STS 34, STS 43, STS 58, STS 76/79), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 17Daniel Charles Brandenstein Watertown Wi, astronaut (STS 8, 51-G, 32, 49), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 03Norman E Thagard Marianna Fl, MD/astronaut (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 10Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer, dies at age 72.Ref: 70
Jul 19Roy D Bridges Jr Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 04Michael J McCulley San Diego Calif, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 14Jon A McBride Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Ravish Malhotra India cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11 backup), is born.Ref: 5
1944
Feb 15Aleksandr A Serebrov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17), is born.Ref: 5
May 20David M Walker Columbus GA, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51-A 30, 53, 69), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 11James "Ox" D A Van Hoften Fresno Calif, astronaut (STS 41C, STS 51I), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 01Yuri V Romanenko USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24Gregory B Jarvis Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 02Claude Nicollier Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, sk: 46), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 03Sherwood C "Woody" Spring Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 18Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago IL, astronaut (STS 39), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 23Loren J Shriver IA, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS-31, sk:46), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 02Jeffrey A Hoffman Brooklyn NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, sk:46), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 22Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, dies at age 61.Ref: 5
1945
Apr 30Michael J Smith Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astronaut (51L-Challenger disaster), is born.Ref: 5
May 16Brewster H Shaw Jr Cass City MI, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28), is born.Ref: 5
May 20Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov Russian colonel/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 21Ernst Willi Messerschmid Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 13Ronald J Grabe NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, STS 30, STS 42), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 20James F Buchli New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 31Leonid I Popov cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 10Richard M Mullane TX, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 21Millie Hughes-Fulford Wells TX, astronaut (STS 40), is born.Ref: 5
1946
Jan 16Michael L Coats Sacramento CA, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 41-D, 29, 39), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 19Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03James C Adamson Warsaw NY, Lieutenant Colonel USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 06Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 09Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 01William F Fisher Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 19Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 24Ellison S Onizuka Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast (STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 28John "Mike" Lounge Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 01Richard O Covey Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astronaut (STS 51I, 26, 38), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 19Charles F Bolden Jr Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, STS 45), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24Richard "Dick" N Richards Key West Fl, USN/astr (STS-28, 41, sk:50), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 06Bryan D O'Connor Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 27Steven R Nagel Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, STS 61-A, STS 37), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 27Terry J Hart Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Robert L "Hoot" Gibson Cooperstown NY, USN/ast (STS 41B, 61C, 27), is born.Ref: 5
1947
Jan 01Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 01Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS 63), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 05Mary Louise Cleave Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 14Pham Tuan Vietnam, cosmonaut (Soyuz 37/36), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 15Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 29Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 15Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 08Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro TN, MD/astro (STS 51D, STS 40), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 05Jugderdemidiin Gurragcha first Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39), is born.Ref: 5
1948
Jan 06Guy Spencer Gardner Alta Vista VA, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS-27, STS-35), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 16Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov Riga, cosmonaut (TM-5,9,15,26, STS 71), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 20Jerry L Ross Indiana, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 61B, 27, 37, 55, 74, 88), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28Mamoru Mohri Yoichi-machi Hokkaido Japan, astronaut (STS 47), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19Byron K Lichtenburg Stroudsburg PA, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20A C Fabian astronomer, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 28Wubbo J Ockels Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Eleanor Margaret Burbridge astronomer/educator, is born.Ref: 5
May 19Jean-Pierre Haignere France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17), is born.Ref: 5
May 27Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 08Svetlana Y Savitskaya 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 29Charles D Walker astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 02Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan), the civilian teacher killed in the Challenger explosion, is born.Ref: 68
Sep 26Vladimir Remek first Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 08Dale A Gardner Fairmont MN, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 04Roberta Lynn Bondar Ontario, astronaut (STS 42), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11, TM-18), is born.Ref: 5
1949
Jan 13Rakesh Sharma India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 23Robert D Cabana Minneapolis MN, Major USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, 88), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 23Marc Garneau Québec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Bonnie J Dunbar Sunnyside WA, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03James S Voss Cordova AL, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Dr. Judith A. Resnik, electrical engineer, astronaut: mission specialist on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger [died Jan 28, 1986], is born in Akron OH.Ref: 4
Apr 28Jerome "Jay" Apt Springfield MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79), is born.Ref: 5
May 03Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73), is born.Ref: 5
May 06David Cornell Leestma Muskegon MI, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45), is born.Ref: 5
May 09Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Frank L Culbertson Jr Charleston SC, Commander USN/astronaut (STS-38), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 26William M Shepherd Oak Ridge Tenn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS-27, 41), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 02Bertalan Farkas first Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24Anna L Fisher St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 31Terrence W Wilcutt Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 29Kenneth D Cameron Cleveland OH, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (Sked:STS-37), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 05Bruce E Melnick NY NY, Commander USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49), is born.Ref: 5
1950
Jan 01Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 01Yevgeni Vladimirovich Saley cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 21Joseph R Tanner Danville IL, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk 97), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28David Carl Hilmer Iowa, Colonel USMC/astronaut (STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 08Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon Cuba, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 14Karl G Jansky Czechoslovakian discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44.Ref: 5
Feb 15Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Franklin R Chang-Diaz Costa Rica, PhD/astronaut (STS 61C, 34, sk:46), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 09Kenneth D Cockrell Austin TX, astronaut (STS 56, 69, 80), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 13George D "Pinky" Nelson Iowa, PhD/astro (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 06Winston E Scott Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 21Ronald E. McNair physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 16Carl J Meade IL, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, sk:STS-50), is born.Ref: 5
1951
Jan 07Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev Russian Major/cosmonaut (TM-19, TM-27), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 20Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 28Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk Kkishkov Ukraine, astronaut (STS 87), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 22Musa Khiramanovich Manarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 24Kenneth S Reightler Jr Patuxent MD, Commander USN/astronaut (STS 48, 60), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Marsha S Ivins Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15John L Phillips Fort Belvoir VA, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2), is born.Ref: 5
May 20Thomas D Akers St Louis MO, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79), is born.Ref: 5
May 24Ronald A Parise Warren OH, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67), is born.Ref: 5
May 26Sally Kristen Ride, Los Angeles CA, first US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G), is born.Ref: 68
May 26Muhammed Ahmad Faris Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 21Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Jun 27Sidney M Gutierrez Albuquerque NM, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 40), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 30Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 26William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr Laurinburg NC, Lt Col/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 12Charles E Brady Jr Pinehurst NC, USN Commander/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 03Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 29Robert Aitken, American astronomer (Binary Stars), dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Nov 18Mark N Brown Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, STS 48), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 01Alexander Panayotov Aleksandrov Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-5), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 12Steven Alan Hawley Ottawa KS, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS 31, STS 82), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Andrew S W Thomas Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut (STS 77, STS 89/91), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 19Fred W Leslie Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut (STS 73), is born.Ref: 5
1952
Jan 08Antonia Maury discoverer (supergiant, giant & dwarf stars), dies.Ref: 5
Jan 16Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr Savannah GA, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 64), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 24William F Readdy Quonset Point RI, astronaut (STS 42, 51, 79), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Mario Runco Jr Bronx NY, Lieutenant-Commander USN/astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19Rudolfo Neri-Vela Chilpancing Mexico, PhD/astronaut (STS 23), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 22James Philip Bagian Philadelphia PA, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 08Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55.Ref: 5
Apr 20Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 06Chiaki Naito-Mukai Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, 95), is born.Ref: 5
May 08Charles J Camarda New York NY, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 14Donald R McMonagle Flint MI, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Linda M Godwin Cape Girardeau Missouri, PhD/astronaut (STS 37), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 05Terence T "Tom" Henricks Bryan Oh, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (STS 44), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 14Mark C Lee Viroqua Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut (STS-30, sk:47), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 17Kathryn C Thornton Montgomery Alabama, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, sk: 49), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 27Dumitru Prunariu first Romanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 27James D Wetherbee Flushing NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-32, sk:46), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 04Ronald Michael Sega Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76), is born.Ref: 5
1953
Feb 11Stephen D Thorne Frankfurt-on-Main, German, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 23Sallie L Baliunas astrophysicist, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 05Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun Russian Colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 14Irina Rudolfovna Pronina Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 27Dr Ellen L Shulman Baker Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50, 71), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 20Brian Duffy Boston Mass, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 28Edwin Powell Hubble astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research; dies at age 63.Ref: 4
Oct 27Michael A Baker Memphis Tenn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 01N Jan Davis Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS-47), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 26Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 30Daniel T Barry Norwalk CT, PhD/astronaut (STS 72), is born.Ref: 5
1954
Feb 09Ulrich Walter German Federal Republic, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 20Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev Russian colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 18James F Reilly II Mount Home AFB ID, PhD/astronaut (STS 89), is born.Ref: 5
May 06Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 16[Dafydd] Rhys Williams Saskatoon Canada, MD/astronaut (STS 90), is born.Ref: 5
May 20Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina Russia, doctor/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 28George E Mahlberg Astrophysicist, Mount Palomar/Mount Wilson CA (1974-78), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 03Kevin P Chilton Los Angeles CA, major USAF/astronaut (sk: STS-49), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Steven Glenwood MacLean Ottawa Ontario, astronaut (STS 52), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Hans William Schlegel Oberlingen Germany, Astronaut (STS 55), is born.Ref: 5
1955
Jan 16Jerry M Linenger Mt Clemens MI, PhD/Commander USN/astronaut (STS 81/84), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 22Thomas David Jones Baltimore MD, PhD/Astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk 98), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev Russian Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 05Renate Bruemmer astronaut/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 11Piers J Sellers Sussex England, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 20Donald R Pettit Silverton OR, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 06Donald A Thomas Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 94), is born.Ref: 5
May 19Pierre J Thuot Groton CT, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 04Andrew M Allen Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (sk: STS-46), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 04Charles D "Sam" Gemar Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 21Richard J Hieb Jamestown ND, astronaut (STS 39, Sk:STS 49), is born.Ref: 5
1956
Jan 01Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky Russia, Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Jan 01Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-15, SK TM-28), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 19George David Low Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 11Curtis L Brown Jr Elizabethtown NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova Russia, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Gregory J Harbaugh Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 16David M Brown Arlington VA, Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 28Paul S Lockhart Amarillo TX, Major USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 04Michael L Gernhardt Mansfield OH, PhD/astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100), is born.Ref: 5
May 11Walter S Adams US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79.Ref: 5
May 13Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 07Kent V Rominger Del Norte Colo, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Kevin R Kregel NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 17Mae C Jemison Decatur AL, MD/astronaut (Sked:STS 47), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 14Kenneth D Bowersox Portsmouth VA, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS-50), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Reinhold Ewald Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-25), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31Martin Joseph Fettman Brooklyn NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 58), is born.Ref: 5
1957
Jan 06C Michael Foale Louth England, astronaut (STS 45, 56, 63, 84/86), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 18Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Mar 18Christer Fuglesang Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 24Scott J Horowitz Philadelphia PA, PhD/Captain USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 31Patrick G Forrester El Paso TX, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 28Leopold Eyharts France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 30Duane G Carey St Paul MN, Major USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 01Paul D Ronney Los Angeles CA, ScD/astronaut (STS 83 alternate), is born.Ref: 5
May 11Luca Urbani Rome Italy, MD/astronaut (STS 78-alternate), is born.Ref: 5
May 13Claudie André-Deshays France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24), is born.Ref: 5
May 14William G Gregory Lockport NY, Major USAF/Astronaut (STS 67), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 19Richard M Linnehan Lowell Mass, US Army Capt/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1958
Jan 18Jeffrey N Williams Superior WI, Major Army/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 03Joe Frank Edwards Jr Richmond VA, Commander USN/astronaut (STS 89), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 26Susan J Helms Charlotte NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 17Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov Russian Major/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 10Ellen Ochoa Los Angeles CA, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66), is born.Ref: 5
May 23Thomas Reiter Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22), is born.Ref: 5
May 30Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lieutenant Commander/astronaut (STS 73, sk 92), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 05Brent W Jett Jr Pontiac Mich, USN Lt Commander/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 10John M Grunsfeld Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 09Nancy J Currie Wilmington DE, Major Army/astronaut (STS 57, 70, sk: 88), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 30Steven L Smith Phoenix AZ, astronaut (STS 68, 82), is born.Ref: 5
1959
Jan 01Abdul Ahad Mohmand Afghanistan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Michael J Bloomfield Flint MI, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 24Yvonne D Cagle West Point NY, MD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 07Tamara E Jernigan Chattanooga, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52, 67, 80), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Wendy B Lawrence Jacksonville Fla, USN Lt Commander/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 28Walther Bauersfeld 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium), dies.Ref: 68
Dec 12Scott D Vangen Granite Falls MN, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Michael P Anderson Plattsburgh NY, major USAF/astronaut (STS 89), is born.Ref: 5
1960
Jan 05Pavel P Parenago Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53.Ref: 5
Feb 09Peggy A Whitson Mt Ayr IA, PhD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 11Richard A Mastracchio Waterbury CT, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 03Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87.Ref: 5
Apr 28Anton Pancake astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87.Ref: 5
Jun 25Walter Baade astronomer, diesRef: 5
Aug 28Leroy Chiao Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Catherine G Coleman Charleston SC, Phd/Captain USAF/astronaut (STS 73)Ref: 5
1961
Jan 24Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov Bulgaria, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 01Daniel M Tani Ridley Park MD, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 06Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko Russian major/cosmonaut (Mir, Soyuz TM-23), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 10Laurel B Clark Ames IA, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 23Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24.Ref: 5
Mar 30P J Melotte discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies.Ref: 5
Jul 28Scott E Parazynski Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko Russian Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-19), is born.Ref: 5
1962
Jan 01Ravshanbek Aliyev Kirgiz, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 28The John Glenn for President Club was formed by a group of Las Vegas republicans. Not long after, America’s first orbital space hero decided that he’d rather be a democrat.Ref: 4
Mar 05Robert L Curbeam Jr Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 85, sk-99), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 26Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Russia, Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin Russia, Major/cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Aug 24Mary E Weber Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronautRef: 5
1963
Jan 06Philippe Perrin Meknes Morocco, Lieutenant-Colonel FAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 07Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper St Paul MN, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Pedro Duque Madrid Spain, engineer/astronaut (STS 78 alternate, sk-95), is born.Ref: 5
May 08Clemens Lothaller Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup), is born.Ref: 5
May 10Lisa M Nowak Washington DC, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 30Helen Patricia Sharman Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12), is born.Ref: 5
1964
Feb 21Mark E Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Feb 21Scott J Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 30John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.Ref: 5
May 14James M Kelly Burlington IA, Captain USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
May 20Paul W Richards Scranton PA, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 31Theodore C Freeman astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash.Ref: 5
1965
Apr 15Soichi Noguchi Yokohama Japan, astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
1966
Jan 14Sergei Korolev Russian space station constructor, dies.Ref: 5
Feb 18Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31.Ref: 5
Feb 28Charles A Bassett II astronaut, dies in a crash of T-38 jet at 34.Ref: 5
Feb 28Elliot McKay See Jr astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash at 38.Ref: 5
Mar 11Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov Russian cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 29Eugene O'Brien actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85.Ref: 5
Jun 20Georges Lemaitre, Belgian astronomer, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71Ref: 5
Jul 18Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old.Ref: 5
1967
Jan 27Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their "Apollo One" spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Florida.Ref: 39
Mar 14Edward M Fincke Pittsburgh PA, Captain USAF/astronaut, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 21André L Danjon French astronomer, dies at 77.Ref: 5
Apr 24Vladimir M Komarov cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is first to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 at age 40.Ref: 5
Jun 06Edward G Givens Jr astronaut, dies in an auto accident at 37.Ref: 5
Oct 05Clifton C Williams Jr astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash.Ref: 5
Oct 21Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94.Ref: 5
Nov 27Roger B Chaffee astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire.Ref: 5
Nov 27Virgil I (Gus) Grissom astronaut, dies at 41 in Apollo I fire.Ref: 5
Nov 27Edward Higgins White II Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies in Apollo I fire at 36.Ref: 5
Dec 08Robert H Lawrence USAF/astronaut, dies at 32.Ref: 5
1968
Mar 07Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31.Ref: 5
Mar 27Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), 1st man to orbit Earth, dies in a plane crash at 34.Ref: 5
Apr 08Harold Babcock, American astronomer, dies at age 86.Ref: 2
1970
Jan 10Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44.Ref: 5
Dec 29Yaroslav Ihorovych Pustovyi Kostroma Ukraine, cosmonaut, is born.Ref: 5
1971
Apr 14Armand Spitz developer of small educational planetarium, dies.Ref: 5
Jun 29Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut; dies in space at age 38.Ref: 70
Jun 30A Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard "Soyuz Eleven" were found dead inside their spacecraft after it had returned to Earth.Ref: 17
1972
Oct 20Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy, dies.Ref: 5
1973
Feb 06Ira S Bowen US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74.Ref: 5
Dec 17Charles G Abbot US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101.Ref: 5
1974
Feb 08Fritz Zwicky Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75.Ref: 5
1976
Jan 23Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44.Ref: 5
1982
Dec 27John Leonard Swigert Jr , NASA astronaut: flew on Apollo 13: said, “Houston, we have a problem!”; dies of cancer at 51. (also TWA, 1984)Ref: 4
Dec 28John Leonard Swigert Jr astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51.Ref: 5
1983
Aug 07Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1986
Apr 15Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin cosmonaut, dies at 76.Ref: 5
May 24Stephen D Thorne Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33.Ref: 5
1987
Dec 01Donn Fulton Eisele Colonel USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57.Ref: 5
1989
Jun 17David S Griggs astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage planeRef: 5
1990
Apr 06Ronald E Evans astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57.Ref: 5
Apr 19Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52.Ref: 5
May 02Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49.Ref: 5
Dec 31Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62.Ref: 5
1991
Apr 05Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr USN/astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43.Ref: 5
1992
Feb 21Franc Holden British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies.Ref: 5
Mar 27James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84.Ref: 5
May 04Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50.Ref: 5
Dec 05Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41.Ref: 5
1993
Apr 18Arthur P Smith US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76.Ref: 5
May 24Milton O Thompson astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66.Ref: 5
Jun 13Deke (Donald) Slayton astronaut: Apollo Mission, July 1975; chief of flight operations at Johnson Space Center, one of the original "Mercury Seven", dies at age 69.Ref: 4
1994
Dec 12Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at age 61.Ref: 5
1995
Feb 08B G Hooghoudt radio-telescope builder (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70.Ref: 5
1996
Jan 02Thornton Page astrophysicist, dies at 82.Ref: 5
Mar 22Robert Franklin Overmyer astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59.Ref: 5
Dec 20Carl (Edward) Sagan Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Dragons of Eden [1978]; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Broca’s Brain, Cosmos; astronomer: “Billions and billions of stars…”; dies in Seattle at age 62. (also TWA, 1998)Ref: 4
1997
Jan 17Clyde William Tombaugh, American discoverer (Pluto), dies at age 90.Ref: 5
Jan 23Roger John Tayler astrophysicist, dies at 67.Ref: 5
Dec 11Kenneth William Gatland aerospace scientist, dies at 73Ref: 5
1998
Jul 21Alan B. Shepard, the first American astronaut to travel in space, dies. (TWA, 1999)Ref: 95
1999
Jul 08Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 astronaut and the third man to walk on the moon, dies in a mortorcycle accident near Ojai, CA at age 69.("The Dayton Daily News", p.7A, 1/2/2000) 
2000
Sep 20Gherman Titov Russian cosmonaut: second man in space [first was Yuri Gagarin]; first man to spend more than a day in space [25 hours: Vostok 2: 1961]; dies.Ref: 4
2001
Dec 17Gordon J Stanley, pioneer in radio-astronomy, dies at age 80 in Monterey, CA. (NY Times, p A17, 1//21/2002) 
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