Harry Houdini24 March 1874, Hungarian
Illusionist
Eddie Rickenbacker08 October 1890, American
Aviator, Racecar Driver, Military Personnel
Bessie Coleman26 January 1892, American
Aviator
Igor Sikorsky25 May 1889, American, Russian
Aviator
Charles Kingsford Smith09 February 1897, Australian
Aviator
Orville Wright19 August 1871, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Wilbur Wright16 April 1867, American
Alberto Santos Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Brazilian aviator
Alberto Santos-Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Aviator, Inventor, Balloonist
Robert Ritter von Greim22 June 1892, German
Aviator, Military personnel
Ernst Udet26 April 1896, German
Aviator, Officer, Actor
Hugo Sperrle07 February 1885, German
Military personnel, Aviator
Geoffrey de Havilland27 July 1882, British
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Test pilot, Aviator,
Kurt Student12 May 1890, German
Aviator, Officer
Otto Lilienthal23 May 1848, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Aviator, Inventor
Lothar von Richthofen27 September 1894, German
Aviator, Military personnel
Keith Park15 June 1892, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Wiley Post22 November 1898, American
Aviator
Glenn Curtiss21 May 1878, American
Aviator
Louis Blériot01 July 1872, French
Aviator, Engineer, Inventor, Aerospace engineer
Hans Baur19 June 1897, German
Aviator, Military personnel
Harriet Quimby11 May 1875, American
Aviator
Oswald Boelcke19 May 1891
Aviator, Military personnel
Max Immelmann21 September 1890
Aviator, Military personnel
Albert Ball14 August 1896, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Harry Ferguson04 November 1884, British, Northern Irish
Mechanic
Werner Voss13 April 1897
Aviator, Military personnel
Charles Nungesser15 March 1892, French
Aviator, Military personnel
Lanoe Hawker30 December 1890, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Nathan Farragut Twining11 October 1897, American
General
James Smith McDonnell09 April 1899, American
Aviator
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Glenn L. Martin17 January 1886, American
Aviator
Thomas Sopwith18 January 1888, British
Aircraft designer
William George Barker03 November 1894, Canadian
Aviator, Military personnel
Floyd Bennett25 October 1890, American
Aviator
Robert Esnault-Pelterie08 November 1881, French
Aviation pioneer
Clyde Cessna05 December 1879, American
Aviator
Gabriel Voisin05 February 1880, French
Engineer
Alan Cobham06 May 1894, British
Aviator
F. W. Winterbotham16 April 1897, British
Air Force Officer
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker26 August 1886, American
Aeronautical engineer
Percy Pilcher16 January 1866, British
Inventor
Claude Grahame-White21 August 1879, British
Aviator
Carl Ben Eielson20 July 1897, American
Aviator
Arthur Whitten Brown23 July 1886, Scottish
Navigator
Henri Farman26 May 1874, French
Aviator
Paul Cornu15 June 1881, French
Engineers
Maurice Farman21 March 1877, French, British
Aviator