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): Abu l-Hasan Ali I • Alfonso López Michelsen • Alicia Fox • Barry Hines • Czesław Miłosz • Ed Lewis (wrestler) • Fantasia (singer) • Giovanni Maria Sabino • Luigi Rovere • Mario Lanfranchi • Murray Cook • Nicola Pozzi • Rade Prica • Sanath Jayasuriya • Tony Musante • Trevor Ariza

Born in the same month (June 1942): Bruce Johnston • Charlotte Bingham • Chris Hani • Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe • Curtis Mayfield • Danny Schechter • Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle • Frank Zane • Giacomo Agostini • J. J. Dillon • John Bellany • Louis Reichardt • Merata Mita • Nick Tate • Nikos Konstantopoulos • Norbert Brunner (bishop) • Pat Hutchins • Paul McCartney • Preston Manning • Roger Ebert • Roger Steffens