Jack Swigert

John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. Ironically, due to the "slingshot" route around the Moon they chose to safely return to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts flew farther away from Earth than any other astronauts before or since, though they had to abort the Moon landing.

30 August 1931

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Alexander Lukashenko • Alexandra Bellow • Carl Runge • Craig Whittaker • Dana Rosemary Scallon • David Paymer • Gerald Albright • Gustavo Eberto • Jacques-Louis David • Lloyd Casner • Nigel Hall (sculptor) • Paulo Sousa • Robert Strassburg • Ronald Huth • Scott Richmond • Theodor Svedberg

Born in the same month (August 1931): Charles E. Rice • Cristina Deutekom • Frederic Raphael • Hans van Mierlo • Jack Good (producer) • James Freeman Gilbert • Joe Cunningham (baseball) • John Shirley-Quirk • Lise Payette • Mário Zagallo • Noble Willingham • Ola L. Mize • Pierre DuMaine • Regis Philbin • Richard F. Heck • Rolf Just Nilsen • Sri Chinmoy • Stelios Kazantzidis • Tito Capobianco • Tom Hafey • Trevor Goddard (cricketer) • Viliam Schrojf