# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-m-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:09.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-m-brown"
name: "David M. Brown"
slug: "david-m-brown"
description: "David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996 but had not served on a space mission prior to the  Columbia disaster. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor."
tagline: "American astronaut (1956–2003)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-04-16"
deathDate: "2003-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55616"
    title: "David Lawrence Brown"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump