Sir Edmund Percival Hillary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary

• Born: 20 July 1919 Auckland, New Zealand
• Died: 11 January 2008 (aged 88) Auckland, New Zealand
• Cause of death: Myocardial infarction
• Spouse(s) Louise Mary Rose (m. 1953–1975) June Mulgrew, QSM (1989–2008)
• Children Peter (b.1954), Sarah (b.1955), Belinda (1959–1975)
• Parents Percival Augustus Hillary and Gertrude Clark

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. He was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.