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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