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): Andy Linden (racing driver) • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell • Karl Felix Halm • Lily James • Matheus Vivian • Michael V. Gazzo • Montgomery Gentry • Pontus Kåmark • Robert Bloch

Born in the same month (April 1949): Bernd Müller (footballer, born 1949) • DeAnne Julius • Dominique Strauss-Kahn • John Madden (director) • Karl Meiler • Len Cook • Lyle Alzado