Christopher Cockerell

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.

4 June 1910

Born on the same birth day (4 June): Alex Manninger • Bob Champion • Enrico Rossi Chauvenet • Evan Lysacek • Evan Spiegel • Gabriel Arcand • Heinrich Otto Wieland • Jonathan Huberdeau • Juan Camacho (Bolivian athlete) • Mark B. Cohen • Mas Oyama • Matt McIlwrick

Born in the same month (June 1910): Arthur Gardner (producer) • Bill Naughton • Bradford Washburn • Burgess Whitehead • Fernand Fonssagrives • Hector Dyer • John Hunt, Baron Hunt • John W. Campbell • Konrad Zuse • Mary Whitehouse • Ray McKinley • Robert Cummings • Til Kiwe