Shot-down aviators

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot and university professor.

George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush was Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.

American politician (1936–2018)

British actor (1919–1995)

German fighter pilot (1892-1918)

American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020)

Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1919–2007)

American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union (1929-1977)

Russian politician, Former Vice President of Russia (born 1947)

American politician and military officer (born 1968)

British actor (1922–1992)

Soviet flying ace

American aviator, actor, director and producer (1893-1973)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)

American director, actor (1896-1975)

American military pilot (1928–2022)

German general and fighter pilot during World War II (1919–1983)

American baseball player and fighter pilot

British World flying ace (1910-1982)

Austrian born German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1920–1944)

Soviet aviator (1916–2001)

Italian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran

British captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (1892-1919)

British actor (1923–2017)

American television and film actor (1924–2014)

US Navy admiral and aviator (1923–2005)

American actor (1911-1986)

German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Senate President of the Free City of Danzig, Reich Governor and Gauleiter of the NSDAP, Waffen-SS Officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1897–1946)

Austrian-born German SS general, head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (1896-1982)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1917–2002)

Heroine of the Soviet Union

American lawyer (1922–2012)

German prince and equestrian (1893-1917)

Soviet female air force officer (1916–2009)

American Vietnam War POW and politician (1924-2014)

racecar driver

British Army officer (1886–1948)

officer in the Indian Air Force

British racing driver and fighter pilot (1918–2011)

inventor of the Frisbee (1920–2010)

American politician; U.S. Representative for Texas (1930-2020)

American author (1887–1951)

American politician and businessman (1924-2008)

Commander of the Soviet Air Forces (1911–1941)

United States Marine Corps aviator and Medal of Honor recipient (1912-1988)

American officer, astronaut, engineer and test pilot (1924–2010)

Vietnam War prisoner of war (1938-2001)

American politician (1924-2013)

Russian military pilot

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1912-2004)

American actor (1923-2018)

Soviet Air Force officer (1916-1945)

general in the United States Air Force

American filmmaker (1924–2014)

American actor (1920-2006)

American politician (1912–2002)

English actor (1919–1979)

Soviet aviator (1913–2009)

Screenwriter, Film director (1906–1993)

Lithuanian pilot and footballer (1907-1944)