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): Bertha Lutz • Charli XCX • Gary Merrill • Goran Gavrančić • Huaiwen Xu • James Howe • Jean-Baptiste du Casse • Jussi Adler-Olsen • K. Arulanandan • Karl Amadeus Hartmann • Leo Beenhakker • Lily Gladstone • Nehemiah Persoff • Ron Brierley • Ruth Nelson (actress) • Sammy McIlroy • Tim Murtagh • Valery Bykovsky

Born in the same month (August 1949): Ian Charleson • Jim Carroll • Joe Regalbuto • Jonathan Kellerman • Joop Donkervoort • Keith Carradine • Loretta Devine • Panagiotis Chinofotis • Philippe Petit • Phyllis Smith • Rick Roberts (musician) • Sib Hashian • Stephen McKinley Henderson • Svetislav Pešić • Ted Ammon • Vicky Leandros • Walid Jumblatt