Peter Hillary

Peter Edmund Hillary is a New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist, He is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat. Hillary has achieved two summits of Everest, an 84-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, and an expedition guiding astronaut Neil Armstrong to land a small aircraft at the North Pole. He has climbed many of the world's major peaks, and on 19 June 2008, completed the Seven Summits, reaching the top of the highest mountains on all seven continents, when he summited Denali in Alaska.

26 December 1954

Born on the same birth date (26 December 1954): Ozzie Smith

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Alan King • Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • Aleksej Pokuševski • Brandon Scherff • Charles Babbage • Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry • Don Barclay (actor) • Earle Brown • Ernst Moritz Arndt • Gianluca Faliva • Gray Davis • Jean Toomer • Kaoru Sugayama • Konstantinos Georgakopoulos • Lars Ulrich • Marius Canard • Martin Cooper (inventor) • Matt Gordy • Norm Ullman • Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld • Stu Miller • Étienne Constantin de Gerlache

Born in the same month (December 1954): Alan Kulwicki • Alex Salmond • Chris Evert • Dan Butler • François Van der Elst • Hideshi Matsuda • John Booth (motor racing) • Judith Hackitt • Nicola De Maria • Oliver Heald • Price Cobb • Raivo Järvi • Ray Liotta • Sergejus Jovaiša