7 August 1913

Samuel Franklin Cody, an American ex-patriot, had been the first to fly a heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain (5 October 1908). He continued to work on his aircraft until August 7, 1913, when testing a new hydroplane of his own design called the Cody Floatplane, he was killed along with a passenger named William Evans (a famed cricket player), His aircraft broke up in mid-flight while at 500 feet of altitude and both men plunged to their deaths.