Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert

male, deceased (1777)
Johann Heinrich Lambert, was a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Mülhausen (now Mulhouse, Alsace, France). His father w...
Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas

male, 60 years old
Bertalan Farkas was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade....
Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor F. Helin

female
Eleanor Francis Helin is an American astronomer, who retired in 2002. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)...
George William Hill

George William Hill

male, deceased (1914)
George William Hill (March 3, 1838 - April 16, 1914), was a U.S. astronomer and mathematician. Hill was born in New York City, New York, and moved...
Stepan Chapman

Stepan Chapman

male
Stepan Chapman (born 1951 in Chicago) is a writer of speculative fiction and fabulation. He might be best known for the Philip K. Dick Award...

Milutin Milanković

male, deceased (1958)
Milutin Milanković (May 28, 1879, Dalj near Osijek, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia) – December 12 1958, Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian civil eng...
Georgi Ivanov

Georgi Ivanov

male, 69 years old
Georgi Ivanov (born Georgi Kakalov, born July 2, 1940) is the first Bulgarian cosmonaut. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in...
Adrien Auzout

Adrien Auzout

male, deceased (1691)
Adrien Auzout was a French astronomer. He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is...
Desmond King-Hele

Desmond King-Hele

male, 82 years old
Desmond George King-Hele (born 1927) is a British physicist. He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1971 for his...

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

male, 67 years old
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to t...