Svetlana Savitskaya

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

8 August 1948

Born on the same birth date (8 August 1948): Margaret Urban Walker

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Anthony Rizzo • Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore • Chris Pressley • Deborah Norville • Huey Morgan • James Morgan (actor) • Jerry Tarkanian • Katie Leung • Kirk Broadfoot • Larisa Bogoraz • Luis García Meza • Parker Kligerman • Phil Carlson • Rudi Gernreich • Steven Tweed • Terry Nation

Born in the same month (August 1948): Avi Arad • David Marks • Deborah Swallow • Fred Hampton • James Street (American football) • Jean-Michel Jarre • John Mehler • John Scarlett • Kim Sung-il (general) • Lev Zelyony • Nicholas A. Peppas • Patsy Gallant • Victor Skumin • Vonda N. McIntyre