Welcome! Check out today's deaths, recent deaths, or our deaths stats.

Feeling experimental? Head on over to our newest (and darkest) feature: Next-2-Die™ predictions

Sergei Korolev

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966).

Born January 12th, 1907 in Zhytomyr.

Died January 14th, 1966 at 59 years old in Moscow (cancer, neoplasm). [ref]

Occupations
aerospace engineer, design engineer, engineer, military personnel, physicist, scientist, soldier, university teacher
Wikipedia
Sergei_Korolev

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks