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Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (1942 - 2005)
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Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (b. January 1, 1942 in Sinenkiye, Saratov Oblast, Russia - d. September 29, 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This mission was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but failed to do so after the docking system...
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Abdul Ahad Momand
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Abdul Ahad Momand (born January 1, 1959) is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan in space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as a Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. Along with Commander Vladimir Lyakhov and Flight Engineer Valery Polyakov, Momand was p...
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Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
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Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev (born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Read more
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Robert Grant Aitken (1864 - 1951)
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Robert Grant Aitken (December 31, 1864 - October 29, 1951) was an American astronomer. He worked at Lick Observatory in California. He systematically studied double stars, measuring their positions and calculating their orbits around one another. Read more
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John Milne (1850 - 1913)
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John Milne (30 December 1850 - 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Read more
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his...
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Daniel Thomas Barry
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Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. Read more
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Steven Smith
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Steven Lee Smith (born December 30, 1958), is an American technology executive and NASA astronaut. Read moreSpoiler
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Bjarne Stroustrup
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Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language. Read moreSpoiler
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John Norris Bahcall (1934 - 2005)
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John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 - August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Read m...
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Sir John Theodore Houghton
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Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FLSW FRS (born 1931) is a Welsh scientist who was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheri...
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Helge Ingstad (1899 - 2001)
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Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 - 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada. With that they we...
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Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764)
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Magnus Pyke (1908 - 1992)
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Magnus Alfred Pyke (Paddington, London, 29 December 1908 - 19 October 1992) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience. He was known for his enthusiastic way o...
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Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796 - 1877)
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Johann Christian Poggendorff (29 December 1796 - 24 January 1877), was a German physicist born in Hamburg. By far the greater and more important part of his work related to electricity and magnetism. Poggendorff is known for his electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm Holtz's electrost...
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