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): Allan Rock • Billy Johnson (baseball) • Gary Gordon • Javier Otxoa • Joann Fletcher • Joe Staley • Juan Ignacio Chela • Jun Matsumoto • Leon Lopez • Leonor Fini • Olga Taussky-Todd • Richard Stone • Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson • Theo Hutchcraft • Theo van Doesburg • Virginia Lee Burton

Born in the same month (August 1931): Barbara Eden • Bramwell Tillsley • Chalmers Johnson • Charles E. Rice • Dolores Alexander • Don King • Frederic Raphael • Grant Williams (actor) • Jack Good (producer) • Joe Cunningham (baseball) • Kálmán Markovits • Mário Zagallo • Noble Willingham • Ola L. Mize • Pierre DuMaine • Ramblin' Jack Elliott • Roger Penrose • Roger Williams (hepatologist) • Trevor Goddard (cricketer) • Viliam Schrojf • William Goldman