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): Albert Bloch • Alex Jesaulenko • Cedric Ceballos • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Doris Coley • Fernando Couto • Jorge Rafael Videla • Karl-Otto Koch • Leopold Gmelin • Malcolm Hilton • Margaret Lawrence (actress) • Matt Henderson (cricketer) • Muriel Bowser • Pete de Freitas • Tony Amonte

Born in the same month (August 1949): Bill Spooner • Diana Nyad • Hugh David Politzer • Joe Regalbuto • John Savage (actor) • Joop Donkervoort • Julian Fellowes • Nikolas Asimos • Paul Pasqualoni • Ray Nettles • Ricardo Londoño • Scott Asheton • Sib Hashian • Ted Ammon • Terry Burnham • Tim Hutchinson