John Alcock (RAF officer)

Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. He died in a flying accident in France in December later that same year.

5 November 1892

Born on the same birth date (5 November 1892): J. B. S. Haldane

Born on the same birth day (5 November): Angelo Moore • Armin Shimerman • Banarsi Das Gupta • Bernard Chazelle • Bryan Adams • Charles Chauncy • Diane Pearson • Isaac de Benserade • James Allen (journalist) • James Elroy Flecker • James Kennedy (social psychologist) • Jeb Stuart Magruder • John Hackett (British Army officer) • John Harwood (journalist) • Karan Thapar • Léon Teisserenc de Bort • Matthew Williams (footballer) • Michel Butter • November 5 • Oleg Blokhin • Richard Wright (footballer) • Seth Gilliam • Walter Gieseking

Born in the same month (November 1892): Alice Brady • Erté • Guo Moruo • Huw T. Edwards • J. B. S. Haldane • James Collip • Naomi Childers • Tazio Nuvolari • Thomas Clay • Tudor Davies