Eugene Burton Ely

Eugene Burton Ely was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.

21 October 1886

Born on the same birth day (21 October): Alfred Nobel • Almen Abdi • Andy Picheta • Chris Sherrington • Hal Duncan • Howard Zieff • James Clark (Jesuit) • Jean Bart • Jim Henderson (baseball) • Jim Parks (cricketer, born 1931) • Joyce Randolph • Louis I de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise • Matthew Friedberger • Michael McMillian • Ninet Tayeb • Patti Davis • Sam Vokes

Born in the same month (October 1886): Alain-Fournier • Edwin Fischer • Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister) • Karl Polanyi • Leo G. Carroll • O. G. S. Crawford • Rube Marquard • Spring Byington