Yes, he was. First man in space - but he died aged 34 in 1968.
(I googled too - because when I first saw moonchild's post I couldn't believe that the Yuri Gagarin that I "knew" had died at the age of 99 - he couldn't have been that old imo and he wasn't! IF he was still alive he would be 77).
I'm just confused about moonchild's post.
