1956) 20 July – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aeronautical engineer (suicide 1932) 26 September – Thérèse Peltier, French sculptor and pioneer aviator (died 1926) 1874 26 May – Henri Farman, Anglo-French aviator (died 1958) 1875 11 May – Harriet Quimby, American aviator, journalist and screenwriter (died 1912 in aviation accident) 11 September – Horatio Barber, English aviation pioneer (died 1964) 1876 14 October – Charles de Tricornot de Rose, French military aviator (died 1916 in aviation accident) 1877 22 March – Sefton Brancker, English air vice marshal (died 1930 in aviation accident) 27 August – Charles Rolls, English aviator and automobile pioneer (died 1910 in aviation accident) 1878 8 January – Millicent Bryant, Australian pilot (drowned 1927) 21 May – Glenn Curtiss, American aircraft manufacturer (died 1930) 28 September – Lilian Bland, Anglo-Irish journalist and pioneer aviator (died 1971) 29 December – Marthe Niel, French pilot (died 1928) 1879 21 August – Claude Grahame-White, English aviator (died 1959) 1880 5 February – Gabriel Voisin, French aircraft manufacturer (died 1973) 1881 27 September – Raymond Saulnier, French aircraft manufacturer (died 1964) 1 October – William Boeing, American aircraft manufacturer (died 1956) 1882 27 July – Geoffrey de Havilland, English aircraft manufacturer and sportsman (died 1965) 19 November – Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian aeronautical engineer and pilot (died 1913 in aviation accident) 1883 10 January – Hubert Latham, French aviator (died 1912) 16 January – Oswald Short, English aeronautical engineer (died 1969) 19 July – Louis Paulhan, French aviator (died 1963) 1884 8 February – John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, English aviator and politician (died 1964) 14 May – Claude Dornier, German aircraft designer (died 1969) 12 June – Henry Petre, English solicitor and pioneer Australian military aviator (died 1962) 25 October – B. C. Hucks, English aviation pioneer (died 1918) 1885 5 March – Graham Gilmour, English aviator (died 1912 in aviation accident) 14 March – Raoul Lufbery, French American fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 6 June – Roy Fedden, English aircraft engine designer (died 1973) 15 November – Frederick Handley Page, English aircraft manufacturer (died 1962) 30 November – Albert Kesselring, German military aviator (died 1960) 1886 23 February – Didier Masson, French aviator (died 1950) 25 June – Henry H. Arnold, American military aviator, General of the Air Force (died 1950) 23 July – Arthur Whitten Brown, English aviator (died 1948) 1887 24 May – Mick Mannock, British