Michael P. Anderson

Michael Phillip Anderson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia. Anderson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

25 December 1959

Born on the same birth date (25 December 1959): Ramdas Athawale

Born on the same birth day (25 December): CCH Pounder • Cab Calloway • Conrad Hilton • Emi Takei • Eve Pollard • Gary McAllister • Johann Jakob Reiske • John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley • Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau • Orlando Gibbons • Pete Rugolo • Steve Otto • Tolossa Kotu • Willy Taveras

Born in the same month (December 1959): Alison La Placa • Baron Waqa • Deborah Estrin • December 6 • Hans Nielsen (speedway rider) • Hansjörg Kunze • Kelefa Diallo • Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi • Ramdas Athawale • Saleem Yousuf • Stephen Jefferies • Udi Aloni