Georgy Dobrovolsky

Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and only humans to have died in space.

1 June 1928

Born on the same birth date (1 June 1928): Bob Monkhouse • Steve Dodd

Born on the same birth day (1 June): Alan Wilder • Brandi Carlile • Cleavon Little • Francis V, Duke of Modena • John Huston (golfer) • Katerina Gogou • Lucy McBath • Michal Grošek • Petra Morsbach • Ted Field • Yarisley Silva

Born in the same month (June 1928): Bob Monkhouse • Erzsi Kovács • Fiorella Mari • Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli • Ian Bannen • Juan María Bordaberry • Margit Bara • Michael Shaara • Mimi Mariani • Nathaniel Tarn • Patrick Hemingway • Radius Prawiro • Ron Reynolds (footballer, born 1928) • Samuel Belzberg • Vic Damone • Wolfgang Haken