Viktor Patsayev

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory ; he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth's atmosphere.

19 June 1933

Born on the same birth day (19 June): Abe Fortas • Ai Miyazato • Alfredo Catalani • Antonio Abetti • Arthur Massey Berry • Charles Coburn • Cyril N. Hinshelwood • Hamilton Hume • Jean Dujardin • Joseph Diez Gergonne • Kathleen Turner • Keaton Jennings • Margarita Ponomaryova • Marilyn P. Johnson • Mary Callery • Michael Yarmush • Neil Asher Silberman • Patti Rizzo • Philipp van Limborch • Rahul Gandhi • Rūdolfs Jurciņš • Sadie Frost • Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta • Timothy Morton • Yasuhiko Yabuta

Born in the same month (June 1933): Bernie Kopell • Bob Cole (sportscaster) • Claudio Abbado • Eddie Adams (photographer) • Gusty Spence • Heinrich Rohrer • M. J. K. Smith • Maurice Stokes • Ngina Kenyatta • Pete Robinson (drag racer) • Predrag Koraksić Corax • Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933) • Sasao Gouland • Tommy Hunt • Vladislav Rastorotsky