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Aviator


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

1923 Chuck Yeager, U.S. test pilot, 1st man to break sound barrier

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

1902 Charles Lindbergh, Detroit, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic

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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