Herman Potočnik

Herman Potočnik was Austro-Hungarian Army officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as an early theorist of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space.

22 December 1892

Born on the same birth day (22 December): Ilias Degiannis • J. Arthur Rank • Jacob Stallings • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Ken Whitmore • Luis Francisco Cuéllar • Mark Hill (musician) • Maurice Gibb • Mohamed El Shenawy • Peregrine Worsthorne • Red Steagall • Stanislav Neckář

Born in the same month (December 1892): Arnold Majewski • Francisco Franco • Marcus Lee Hansen • Rebecca West • Ruth Chatterton • Sam Barry • Stuart Davis (painter) • Walter Hagen