Helen Sharman

Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.

30 May 1963

Born on the same birth date (30 May 1963): Michel Langevin • Élise Lucet

Born on the same birth day (30 May): Beatriz Haddad Maia • Big L • Emil Reesen • Frank Vanhecke • Gianmaria Bruni • James Chaney • Mikhail Bakunin • Paul Grayson (rugby union) • Randolph Bourne • Ryōgo Narita • Ted McGinley

Born in the same month (May 1963): Andrea Leadsom • Claude Closky • Claude Legault • Gavin Nebbeling • Houman Younessi • Ivan Capelli • Jamie Spence • Jeff Hornacek • Laurie Spina • Maria Walliser • Michel Gondry • Mike Myers • Rachel Griffith • Richard Appel • Simon Rimmer • Viktor Orbán