Robert Ballard

Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.

30 June 1942

Born on the same birth date (30 June 1942): Ron Harris (ice hockey)

Born on the same birth day (30 June): Barbora Špotáková • Cheryl (singer) • Ebrahim Amini • Harry Blackstone Jr. • Jack McConnell • James Bannatyne • John Van Ryn • Kaye Vaughan • Lena Horne • Mike Tyson • Nagarjun • Orval Tessier • Ron Swoboda • Ryan ten Doeschate • Serzh Sargsyan • Tom Davies (footballer, born 1998) • Tomislav Ivić

Born in the same month (June 1942): Arthur Brown (musician) • Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton • Bruce Johnston • Carl Radle • Doug Mountjoy • Giacomo Agostini • Hans Vonk (conductor) • Hans-Joachim Walde • John E. McLaughlin • Jonathan Raban • Nick Tate • Roberto García-Calvo Montiel • Willis Reed