Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин)

Born: 9 March 1934 Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, Died: 27 March 1968 (aged 34) Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

He was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.