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): Charles de Lint • Chris Old • Danny Ahn • Derick Parry • Dimitri Fampas • Edwin Arlington Robinson • Emperor Antoku • Frances Lannon • Gustaf Gründgens • Hideshi Matsuda • Jacob Stallings • Jan Stephenson • Kirk Maltby • Mohamed El Shenawy • Peter Mortimer (rugby league) • Robin Gibb • Ruth Roman • Takuya Onishi • Ted Cruz • Tommaso Dingli • Tony Isabella • Vladimir Fock

Born in the same month (December 1892): Alfred Edwin McKay • André Randall • Arnold Majewski • Don Barclay (actor) • Francisco Franco • J. Paul Getty • Liu Bocheng • Marcus Lee Hansen • Osbert Sitwell • Rebecca West • Ruth Chatterton • Sam Barry • Stuart Davis (painter) • Walter Hagen