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
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