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Born 1761 • France
Died 1828 (aged 67) • France
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French balloonist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Ben L. Abruzzo
American balloonist
Maxie Anderson
American balloonist
Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
Charles Green
British balloonist
Albert W. Stevens
American aerial photographer
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French-born naturalist
Voisin, Gabriel; Voisin, Charles
Gabriel Voisin
French aviation pioneer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.
Louis Daguerre
French painter and physicist
Alexandre Alexeïeff
French animator
Georges Claude
French engineer

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