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): Antoine, Duke of Lorraine • Bob Champion • Bronisław Komorowski • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim • Daniel Topolski • Emmanuel Eboué • Franz Xaver von Zach • Geoffrey Palmer (actor) • Gordon Waller • Jim Lachey • John P. Kee • Judith Malina • Mikey Whipwreck • Mollie King • Monica Dacon • Mortimer Zuckerman

Born in the same month (June 1910): Bill Naughton • Burgess Whitehead • Gonzalo Torrente Ballester • John Hunt, Baron Hunt • Mary Whitehouse • Mike Sebastian • Milt Hinton • Paulette Goddard • Rudolf Kempe • Ted Hicks