Samantha Cristoforetti

Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022.

26 April 1977

Born on the same birth date (26 April 1977): Kosuke Fukudome • Roxana Saberi • Tom Welling

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Daesung • Daniil Kvyat • Duane Eddy • Eyvind Earle • Filiberto Ojeda Ríos • John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) • Melvin Ingram • Sylvain Simard

Born in the same month (April 1977): Andruw Jones • Andy Phillips (baseball) • Daniel Majstorović • Gyula Koi • Jason Price • Jeannie Haddaway • John Cena • Jonathan Erlich • Karin Haydu • Kosuke Fukudome • Margus Tsahkna • Matthew West • Nate Fox • Per Elofsson • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Stephanie Sheh • Stephen Mulhern • Ville Nieminen • Vitor Belfort