Coleman, American pilot (died 1926) 15 March – Charles Nungesser, French fighter ace (died 1927 accident) 30 March – Erhard Milch, German military aviator (died 1972) 6 April – Donald Wills Douglas Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (died 1981) 13 April Arthur "Bomber" Harris, English military aviator (died 1984) Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish pioneer of radar (died 1973) 2 May – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter ace (died 1918 in combat) 6 July – Willy Coppens, Belgian fighter ace (died 1986) 11 July – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English military aviator (died 1944 in aviation accident) 17 July – Edwin Harris Dunning, English naval aviator (died 1917 in aviation accident) 5 November – John Alcock, English aviator (died 1919 in aviation accident) 14 November – Dieudonné Costes, French aviator (died 1973) 8 December – Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator (died 1933 in aviation accident) 24 December – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (died 1961) 27 December – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian fighter ace (died 1917 in combat) 1893 12 January – Hermann Göring, German military aviator (suicide 1946) 5 August – Sydney Camm, English aircraft designer (died 1966) 17 December – Charles C. Banks, English fighter ace (died 1971) 1894 7 March – Frank Halford, English aircraft engine designer (died 1955) 27 March – René Fonck, French fighter ace (died 1953) 5 April – Larry Bell, American aircraft manufacturer (died 1956) 6 May – Alan Cobham, English aviator (died 1973) 13 December – Friedrich Hefty, Austro-Hungarian fighter ace (died 1965) 24 December – Georges Guynemer, French fighter ace (died 1917 in action) 1895 28 March – James McCudden, English fighter ace (died 1918 in aviation accident) 20 May – R. J. Mitchell, English aircraft designer (died 1937) 14 July – Leefe Robinson, English military aviator (died 1918) 21 September – Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Spanish aeronautical engineer (died 1936 in aviation accident) 28 October (probable) – Clyde Pangborn, American aviator (died 1958) 1 November – Arthur Raymond Brooks, American fighter ace and aviator (died 1991) 1896 12 April – Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., American aviator (died 1974) 26 April – Ernst Udet, German military aviator (suicide 1941) 14 August – Albert Ball, English fighter ace (died 1917 in combat) 1897 9 February – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator (died 1935 in aviation accident) 23 February – Edgar Percival, Australian aircraft designer (died 1984) 24 July – Amelia