fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 22 September – Maurice Prévost, French aviator (died 1952) 26 September – William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, English military aviator (died 1915 of wounds) 11 November – Walther Wever, German military aviator (died 1936 in aviation accident) 1888 18 January – Thomas Sopwith, English aircraft manufacturer (died 1989) 24 January – Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft manufacturer (died 1958) 25 May – George Herbert Scott, English aviator (died 1930 in aviation accident) 6 October – Roland Garros, French aviator (died 1918 in action) 29 October (10 November OS) – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (died 1972) 1889 22 January – Harry Hawker, Australian-born aviator (died 1921 in aviation accident) 1 May – Herbert Smith, English aeronautical engineer (died 1977) 25 May – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born aircraft manufacturer (died 1972) 13 June – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot and first fighter ace (died 1915 in action) 25 June – Gustav Hamel, German-born British aviator (lost on flight 1914) 1890 6 April – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (died 1939) 13 August – Lydia Zvereva, Russian aviation pioneer (died 1916) 22 August – Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 21 September – Max Immelmann, German fighter ace (died 1916 in action) 8 October – Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace (died 1973) 25 October – Floyd Bennett, American naval aviator (died 1928) 30 December – Lanoe Hawker, English fighter ace (died 1916 in action) 1891 22 January – Bruno Loerzer, German military aviator (died 1960) 30 January – Walter Beech, American aircraft manufacturer (died 1950) 18 February – Julius Busa, German fighter ace (died 1917 in action) 3 March – Fritz Rumey, German fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 24 March – Rudolf Berthold, German fighter ace (died 1920 in Kapp Putsch) 5 April – Eric Gordon England, Argentine-born English aviator, pioneer glider pilot and racing driver (died 1970) 16 May – Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 19 May – Oswald Boelcke, German fighter ace (died 1916 in action) 11 July – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, French aviator (died 1944) July 30 – Roderic Dallas, Australian World War I fighter ace (died 1918 in action) December 6 – Gotthard Sachsenberg, German naval aviator, fighter ace (died 1961) December 17 – Karl Emil Schäfer, German fighter ace (died 1917 in action) Zee Yee Lee, Chinese aviation pioneer (died 1944) 1892 January 26 – Bessie