Francis Gary Powers

Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

17 August 1929

Born on the same birth day (17 August): Andrus Kivirähk • Brady Corbet • Dave "Snaker" Ray • Habibul Bashar • Julian Fellowes • Patrick Manning

Born in the same month (August 1929): Abdi İpekçi • Betty Dodson • Bill Evans • David Waddington • Don Matheson • Hafizullah Amin • Ira Levin • István Kertész (conductor) • John Gale (theatre producer) • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Larisa Bogoraz • Luis García Meza • Pat Harrington Jr. • Roch La Salle • Ronnie Biggs • Roy Crimmins • Ulrich Wegener • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist)