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): Adolf Schärf • Alan Beith • Brandon Belt • Charles Plumier • Daniel Chester French • Dwight Gustafson • Ernie Stautner • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Holland Smith • Johnny Tillotson • Konstantin Lavronenko • Luther Vandross • Mimis Fotopoulos • Miranda Kerr • Pat Roberts • Peter Chelsom • Tito Puente • Viktor Suvorov • Will Hodgman

Born in the same month (April 1969): Brad Ausmus • Cerys Matthews • Cory Booker • Dean Windass • Eilidh Whiteford • Fernando Viña • Ilias Atmatsidis • Linda Kisabaka • Martin Koolhoven • Martyn LeNoble • Michael von Grünigen • Paul Rudd • Paulo Jr. • Piotr Anderszewski • Renée Zellweger • Rodney Hampton • Yelena Shushunova