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180 famous people found
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Joseph LE BRIX
French aviator
1899 - 1931 -
Ferdinand VON RICHTHOFEN
German traveller, geographer, and scientist
1833 - 1905 -
Robert PEARY
American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole
1856 - 1920 -
Fridtjof NANSEN
Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1861 - 1930 -
Alexandre André TELLET-LARENTE
French aviator
1904 - 1939 -
Alfred GRANDIDIER
French naturalist and explorer
1836 - 1921 -
Norman D. VAUGHAN
American dogsled driver and explorer
1905 - 2005 -
Alain RICHARD
French pilot
1930 - 1962 -
Alan SHEPARD
American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman
1923 - 1998 -
Brewster H. SHAW
Former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing
1945 -
Pierre SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA
Italian explorer, born in the Papal States and later naturalized as a Frenchman
1852 - 1905 -
Glenn CURTISS
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry
1878 - 1930 -
Sharon MCAULIFFE
American teacher, one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
1948 - 1986 -
Henri GUILLAUMET
French aviator
1902 - 1940 -
Louis GAUDART
French aviation pioneer
1885 - 1913 -
Edmond THIEFFRY
Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer
1892 - 1929 -
Ernest François CAMBIER
Belgian explorer
1844 - 1909 -
Rusty SCHWEICKART
American former astronaut, research scientist, US Air Force fighter pilot, business and government executive
1935 -
Léon DELAGRANGE
Pioneer French aviator
1872 - 1910 -
Adrien de GERLACHE DE GOMERY
Officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899
1866 - 1934