Judith Resnik

Judith Arlene Resnik was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.

5 April 1949

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1949): Larry Franco • Stanley Dziedzic

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Alisha Glass • Frank R. Stockton • Giorgos Sideris • Hans Hildebrand • Kisho Yano • Moise Safra • Mompati Thuma • Yasuhiro Takemoto • Yohann Sangaré

Born in the same month (April 1949): Alyson Bailes • Bernd Eichinger • Craig Zadan • Daniel Mangeas • Dave Gibbons • Jerry Blackwell • John Miles (musician) • Litsa Diamanti • Paul Guilfoyle • Richard Thompson (musician) • Sammy Nelson • Veronica Cartwright • Véronique Sanson