Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas is the first Hungarian cosmonaut, space explorer and fighter pilot. Hungary became the seventh nation to be represented in space by him. Farkas is also the first Esperantist cosmonaut. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade.

2 August 1949

Born on the same birth date (2 August 1949): James Fallows

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Alan Whicker • Betsy Bloomingdale • Davey Boy Smith Jr. • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Elisha Gray • Giampaolo Pazzini • Hélder Postiga • Ivica Banović • James Fallows • James Howe • Joe Harnell • John Alexander Douglas McCurdy • Karl Amadeus Hartmann • Michael Hughes (footballer) • Miguel Mendonca • Pierre Charles L'Enfant • Viktor Zhirmunsky • Vladimir Žerjavić

Born in the same month (August 1949): Bill Spooner • Diana Nyad • Eric Carmen • Gene Simmons • Jeff Cook • Jim Carroll • John Savage (actor) • Julian Fellowes • Kurmanbek Bakiyev • Leon Redbone • Morten Olsen • Nikolas Asimos • Phyllis Smith • Ray Nettles • Stan Hansen • Svetislav Pešić • Tim Hutchinson • Willy Rey