Wilbur and Orville Wright, U,S,A, They became the first to fly an heavier than air machine on 17th, December 1903, Orville Wright was born in 1871 and died in 1948, Wilbur was born in1867 and died in 1912, Pictured is Orville Wright flying in the Wright Brothers glider at Kitty Hawk in 1911 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)