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Ed White

1930 - 1967

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Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. After graduating from West Point in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree, White was sent to flight training, and assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, where he flew the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre fighters. In 1958, he enrolled in the University of Michigan to study aeronautical engineering, receiving his Master of Science degree in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ed White is the 11th most popular astronaut (up from 26th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,550th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ed White ranks 11 out of 556. Before him are Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Pete Conrad, John Young, William Anders, and Buzz Aldrin. After him are Vladimir Komarov, Thomas P. Stafford, Ronald Evans, Michael J. Smith, Alexei Leonov, and Richard F. Gordon Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Ed White ranks 25. Before him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Ray Charles, Baudouin of Belgium, Pete Conrad, John Young, and Buzz Aldrin. After him are Jean-Louis Trintignant, Tu Youyou, Salvatore Riina, Ion Iliescu, Frank Lucas, and Silvana Mangano. Among people deceased in 1967, Ed White ranks 10. Before him are Konrad Adenauer, René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. After him are Spencer Tracy, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Vladimir Komarov, Edward Hopper, Zoltán Kodály, and Mir Osman Ali Khan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed White ranks 366 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan Sarandon (1946), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Rita Hayworth (1918), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Bernie Sanders (1941), and Margaret Hamilton (1936). After him are Willis Lamb (1913), Robert E. Lee (1807), Jimmy Wales (1966), Jesse Owens (1913), Spencer Tracy (1900), and Philip K. Dick (1928).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ed White ranks 7. Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), John Glenn (1921), Gene Cernan (1934), Pete Conrad (1930), John Young (1930), and Buzz Aldrin (1930). After him are Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Ronald Evans (1933), Michael J. Smith (1945), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Alan Shepard (1923), and Robert Crippen (1937).

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