Jan Nagórski
Polish engineer
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Alfons Jan Nagórski, also known as Ivan Iosifovich Nagurski, was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat. Wikipedia
Born: February 8, 1888, Włocławek, Poland
Died: June 9, 1976 (age 88 years), Warsaw, Poland
Education: Odessa Military School (1906–1909), Ofitserskaya Vozdukhoplavatel'naya Shkola, and F. E. Dzerzhinsky Naval Engineering Academy
Awards: Order of Saint Stanislaus and Order of Polonia Restituta