When is Yuri Gagarin's birthday?

Yuri Gagarin's birthday is March 9. He was born on March 9, 1934 in Klushino, Russia.

How old was Yuri Gagarin when he died?

Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968, aged 34.

Who shares a birthday with Yuri Gagarin?

Famous people who share Yuri Gagarin's March 9 birthday include Yuri Gagarin, Taras Shevchenko, Amerigo Vespucci, Bobby Fischer and Vyacheslav Molotov.

Aviation · Space · Politics · 1934–1968

Yuri Gagarin — Age, Birthday & Biography

Born: 9 March 1934 · Died: 27 March 1968 · Age: 34

becoming the first human to journey into outer space during his historic Vostok 1 orbital flight in 1961

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Date of birth9 March 1934
Date of death27 March 1968
Age at death34
NationalitySoviet
BirthplaceKlushino, Russia

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Gagarin's journey from wartime hardship to global icon captures the Soviet Union's ambitions during the Space Race. His selection owed much to physical constraints—at 1.57 metres tall, he fit the cramped Vostok capsule. The 108-minute flight transformed him into a propaganda asset so valuable that officials barred him from further spaceflights despite his training. His service as backup to the doomed Soyuz 1 mission underscored the programme's risks. When finally permitted to fly routine aircraft in 1968, he lasted barely five weeks before his fatal crash. His legacy rests on a single orbital flight that changed humanity's relationship with space.

Key Milestones

1950: Began apprenticeship in metalworking at Lyubertsy steel facility
1957: Commissioned as lieutenant after graduating flight school
1961: Completed first crewed spaceflight orbiting Earth once
1968: Died in aircraft crash near Kirzhach town

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.

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Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space

Soviet cosmonaut and pilot, born 1934

Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino on 9 March 1934.

Gagarin became the first person to travel into outer space on 12 April 1961, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes aboard Vostok 1.

He worked as a foundryman at a steel facility in Lyubertsy before joining the Soviet Air Forces and being stationed at Luostari Air Base near the Norwegian border.

Gagarin died on 27 March 1968 when the MiG-15 he was piloting with instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near Kirzhach, just five weeks after being cleared to fly again.

Career highlights

1955Pilot school admission: First Chkalov Higher Air Force
1957Commissioned lieutenant: Soviet Air Forces commission
1960Cosmonaut selection: Approved for space programme
1961Vostok 1 mission: First human spaceflight
1962Supreme Soviet deputy: Elected to Soviet of Union

Did you know?Gagarin sabotaged Nazi batteries during occupation by pouring soil into them after a soldier tried to hang his brother.

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Age at death: 34
Years since death: 58

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When is Yuri Gagarin's birthday?: Yuri Gagarin's birthday is March 9. He was born on March 9, 1934 in Klushino, Russia.
How old was Yuri Gagarin when he died?: Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968, aged 34.
Who shares a birthday with Yuri Gagarin?: Famous people who share Yuri Gagarin's March 9 birthday include Yuri Gagarin, Taras Shevchenko, Amerigo Vespucci, Bobby Fischer and Vyacheslav Molotov.

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