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Born 1881 • LisieuxFrance
Died 1944 (aged 63)

Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Hermann Oberth
German scientist
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Jerome C. Hunsaker
American aeronautical engineer
Pickering, William Hayward; Johnson, Lyndon
William Hayward Pickering
American engineer and physicist
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev
Soviet scientist
Dornberger, Walter Robert
Walter Robert Dornberger
German engineer
Lilienthal glider
Otto Lilienthal
German aeronautical engineer
Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
American aeronautical engineer
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Lawrence Hargrave
British aeronautical engineer
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Max Faget
Max Faget
American engineer
Pilcher Hawk
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
British engineer

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