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): Dmitri Mironov • Emmanuel Agassi • Eve Pollard • Helena Rubinstein • James Fletcher Jnr • Joseph M. Schenck • Mary Rose Tuitt • Ned Garver • Nellie Fox • Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester • Qu Yunxia • Ramdas Athawale • René Girard • Robert Huff
Born in the same month (December 1959): Alison La Placa • Ana Torroja • Florence Griffith Joyner • Gerina Dunwich • Greg Matthews • Hildegard Körner • Iván Vallejo • Johnny Whitaker • Josée Verner • Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz • Kevin Ash • Lee Chapman • Liveris Andritsos • Mark Steyn • Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi • Paula Poundstone • Stephen Jefferies • Stephen Muggleton