Donald Pettit

Donald Roy Pettit is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the microgravity coffee cup, which received the first ever patent for an object invented in space. He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station, one Space Shuttle mission and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. As of 2024, at age 69, he is NASA's oldest active astronaut.

20 April 1955

Born on the same birth date (20 April 1955): Svante Pääbo

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Bruce Cabot • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Heinrich Göbel • Justinien Clary • Konstantin Lavronenko • Luke Kuechly • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Napoleon III • Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland • Renata of Lorraine • Sebastian Faulks

Born in the same month (April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • Bill Osborne • Christian Gourcuff • Dodi Fayed • Don Hasselbeck • Fabian Hamilton • Gerrie Coetzee • Gregg Jarrett • Guy Nève • Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg • Joice Mujuru • Judy Davis • Lesley Garrett • Michael Callen • Micheal Ray Richardson • Ricardo Ferrero • Rob Epstein • Saeb Erekat • Svante Pääbo • Urmas Ott • Yamina Benguigui • Zlatko Topčić