Alexander Lippisch

Alexander Martin Lippisch was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. Within the Opel-RAK program, he was the designer of the world's first rocket-powered glider.

2 November 1894

Born on the same birth day (2 November): David Lane (white supremacist) • Derek Mountfield • Georges Schéhadé • Kate Linder • Lauren Vélez • Lois McMaster Bujold • Marisol Nichols • Moa Martinson • Rose Bird • Scott Walker (politician) • Thierry Omeyer • Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine

Born in the same month (November 1894): Américo Tomás • Bennie Moten • Beverly Bayne • Bobby Cruickshank • Brooks Atkinson • Cecil M. Harden • Dietrich von Choltitz • Henry Hazlitt • James McGuigan • Johann Nikuradse • Katherine Milhous • Kōnosuke Matsushita • Norbert Wiener • Sofoklis Venizelos • Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe