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 • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Isaac Liu • Jack Douglas (actor) • Jay DeMarcus • Jessica Lynch • Joey Jordison • John Battle (politician) • Kevin James • Michael Mathias Prechtl • Nevin Spence • Novlene Williams-Mills • Richard Bradshaw (conductor) • Svyatoslav Belza

Born in the same month (April 1977): Andy Phillips (baseball) • Chad Hedrick • Claus Jensen • Frederik Magle • John Cena • Kal Penn • Kosuke Fukudome • Lee Young-pyo • Per Elofsson • Rob McElhenney • Sarah Monahan • Stephen Mulhern • Sudarsan Pattnaik • Tama Canning • Ville Nieminen • Zuzana Hejdová