Charles Kingsford Smith

Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Zealand.

9 February 1897

Born on the same birth day (9 February): A. R. Antulay • Aletta Jacobs • Angelos Charisteas • Clive Swift • David Simon • Ernest Tubb • Helena Kmieć • Hermann Brill • Howard Taylor Ricketts • Irina Slutskaya • Jo Duffy • Joe Pesci • Jordi Cruyff • Kurt Asle Arvesen • William Henry Harrison

Born in the same month (February 1897): Alma Rubens • Charles Groves Wright Anderson • Denise Robins • Dirk Stikker • Emil Leon Post • Gerrit Kleerekoper • Gertrude Blanch • Howard Deering Johnson • Ivan Albright • John Franklin Enders • Judith Anderson • Karol Świerczewski • Lincoln LaPaz • Ludwig Erhard • Marian Anderson • Zakir Husain