Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Wikipedia
Born: January 12, 1907, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Died: January 14, 1966 (age 59 years), Moscow, Russia
Education: Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1924–1926) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Parents: Paul Yakovlevich Korolyov and Maria Nikolaevna Moskalenko
Grandchild: Andrey Korolyov
Children: Nataliya Koroleva
Siblings: Nikolai Korolev