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): Anthony Seldon • Berimbau • Gary Merrill • Johann Jakob Scheuchzer • John Gale (theatre producer) • K. Arulanandan • Leopold Gmelin • Mark Lee (singer) • Mary Hamman • Matt Henderson (cricketer) • Miguel Mendonca • Per Westerberg • Red Ames • Uğur Tütüneker • Vladimir Žerjavić • Will Tura

Born in the same month (August 1949): Bill Spooner • Darnell Hillman • Eric Carmen • Gene Simmons • Jim Brunzell • Joop Donkervoort • Julian Fellowes • Michael Nazir-Ali • Rijkman Groenink • Sue Draheim • Terry Burnham • War (band)