Steve Fossett
James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
22 April 1944
Born on the same birth date (22 April 1944): Doug Jarrett • Joshua Rifkin
Born on the same birth day (22 April): Alo Mattiisen • Donald J. Cram • Isabella I of Castile • Issey Miyake • Michael Wittmann • Norman Steenrod • Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten • Reinhard III, Count of Hanau
Born in the same month (April 1944): Bill Malinchak • Bruce Ponder • Dave Edmunds • Elizabeth LeCompte • Gerhard Schröder • Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg • Herb Pedersen • Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe • Jean-François Stévenin • John Milius • John Sergeant (journalist) • János Martonyi • Len Goodman • Los Bravos • Nelson Prudêncio • Odd Nerdrum • Peter Barfuß • Philip Jackson (sculptor) • Shel Bachrach • Toktamış Ateş • Willeke van Ammelrooy