Felix Baumgartner

Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He is widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet with a drogue.

20 April 1969

Born on the same birth date (20 April 1969): Will Hodgman

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Allan Houston • Antony Jay • Carol I of Romania • Crispin Glover • David Filo • Dinah Craik • Donald Pettit • Eszter Tamási • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Guy Rocher • Holland Smith • Jiří Dienstbier • Johannes Agricola • John Eliot Gardiner • Joseph Wolpe • K. Alex Müller • Kakha Bendukidze • Miran Bakhsh • Napoleon III • Odilon Redon • Peter Chelsom • Svante Pääbo • Toivo Aare

Born in the same month (April 1969): Barnaby Kay • Brad Ausmus • Darcey Bussell • Darren Woodson • Dean Windass • Jon Olsen • Justine Greening • Jörn Lenz • Lev Lobodin • Martin Koolhoven • Ravindra Prabhat • Steve Glasson • Tomislav Piplica