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1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1995 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator), dies 1994 Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96 1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American Aviator 1991 Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55 1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, dies at 72 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith 1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator 1936 Louis Bieriot, aviator, dies 1932 Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh 1932 Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian Aviator 1926 Bessie Coleman, American Aviator 1920 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator 1908 Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash 1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife 1901 Francis Charles Chinester, yachtsman/aviator 1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, born in France, aviator/writer, Wind, Sand and Stars 1898 Wiley Post, Grand Plain, Texas, aviator/parachutist, crashed in Alaska 1898 Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic 1897 Lores Bonney, aviator 1897 Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator 1896 Jimmy Doolittle, American Aviator 1892 Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator 1891 Norman "Squab" Read, U.S. aviator who lived to be 101 1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces", WW I 1886 Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator 1886 Glenn Luther Martin, aviator, Collier Trophy-1933 1885 John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero 1880 Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator 1873 Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian Aviator 1871 Orville Wright, born in Dayton, Ohio, aviator 1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator |
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