Birth Date Cake O'Clock Birth Date Clock

Ed Yost

Ed Yost
Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (d. 2007)

Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several colleagues from General Mills.

30 June 1919

Random

Born on the same birth day (30 June): Allan Houser • Andy Scott (guitarist) • David Alan Grier • Ebrahim Amini • Fantasia (singer) • Frank McCabe (basketball) • James Bannatyne • John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey • Kaye Vaughan • Lena Horne • Martín de Rada • Max Trepp • Mitch Richmond • Monica Potter • Patrik Bodén • Stephen Barlow (conductor)

Born in the same month (June 1919): Amala Shankar • Antonia Mesina • Clifton McNeely • Donald M. Ashton • Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada • Gower Champion • Gérard Pelletier • Haidar Abdel-Shafi • Henri Tajfel • Jimmy Newberry • Joseph P. Lordi • Jüri Järvet • Kevin O'Flanagan • Lloyd Richards • Pauline Kael • Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington • Sam Wanamaker • Uta Hagen