Roland Garros (aviator)
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros (6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918) was a French pioneering aviator and fighter pilot. He achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller on 1 April 1915. He died in a plane crash in October 1918, but was survived by his wife and two children.