Roland Garros

Roland Garros

male, deceased (1918)
Roland Garros (October 6, 1888 - October 25, 1918) was an early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I.
Marie Marvingt

Marie Marvingt

female, deceased (1963)
Marie Marvingt was a French athlete, mountaineer, and aviator, and the most decorated woman in the history of France. She won numerous prizes for...
Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell

male, deceased (1936)
William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell (December 28, 1879 - February 19, 1936) was an American general who is regarded as one of the most famous and most...
Carl Andrew Spaatz

Carl Andrew Spaatz

male, deceased (1974)
Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz (June 28,1891 - July 14, 1974) was an American general in World War II. Carl Andrew Spatz was born on June 28, 1891, in...

Sidney Osborne Bufton

male
Sidney Osborne Bufton was an Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Air Force who played a major part in establishing the Pathfinder project. After retiring...
Curtis Lemay

Curtis Lemay

male, deceased (1990)
Curtis Emerson LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace...
Arthur Travers Harris

Arthur Travers Harris

male, deceased (1984)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB OBE AFC RAF (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as "Bomber"...
Anton Nilson

Anton Nilson

male, deceased (1989)
Anton Nilson was a Swedish militant communist. Nilson was born and grew up in a peasant region in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. He b...

Clément Ader

male, deceased (1926)
Clément Ader was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation.
Thomas Dewitt Milling

Thomas Dewitt Milling

male, deceased (1960)
Thomas DeWitt Milling was a pioneer of military aviation and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was the first rated pilot in the...