Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa

Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa is a Mongolian cosmonaut and military leader. He was the first Mongolian and second Asian to go into space. He also was Mongolia's Defense Minister from 2000 to 2004.

5 December 1947

Born on the same birth date (5 December 1947): Bruce Golding • Don Touhig • Jim Messina (musician) • Jim Plunkett • Kim Simmonds • Rudy Fernandez (triathlete) • Tony Gregory

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Adam Thorpe • Andrew Yeom Soo-jung • Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven • Calvin Trillin • Catherine Tate • Francesco Scarlatti • George Shepherd (artist) • Giuseppe Occhialini • Grace Moore • Hilary Koprowski • James Hinchcliffe • Jessica Paré • Jianwen Emperor • Osvaldo Golijov • Pieter Oud • Pope Julius II • Sonny Boy Williamson II • Zbigniew Oleśnicki (cardinal)

Born in the same month (December 1947): Ax (wrestler) • Don Keith • Don Touhig • James T. Conway • Leonid Yuzefovich • Margaret Geller • Tony Gregory