Full Name=Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry; Profession=French writer, poet, journalist and pioneering commercial and military aviator whose flying career and wartime service deeply informed his literary work; Nationality=French; Born=29 June 1900; Birthplace=8 rue Payrat, Lyon, Rhône, France; Generation=Lost Generation (tail-end cohort shaped by World War I and interwar modernism, generally defined as people born between 1883 and 1900); Chinese Zodiac=Metal Rat; Zodiac Sign=Cancer; Age in 2026=126 (would be, if still living, on 29 June 2026); Marital Status=Married in 1931 to Salvadoran-born writer and artist Consuelo Suncín, known as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and remained married until his death; Children=None (he had no children). Description=Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into an aristocratic French family in Lyon and became both a pioneering airmail pilot and a major twentieth-century author, whose works such as “Night Flight," “Wind, Sand and Stars," “Flight to Arras," and above all the philosophical fable “The Little Prince” fused poetic, allegorical storytelling with firsthand reflections on aviation, courage, friendship, love, responsibility, spiritual longing, and the search for meaning, drawing on his dangerous work flying early commercial routes across the Sahara and Andes and later reconnaissance missions during World War II, and earning him a reputation as a modernist writer of “poetry in prose” whose slender but influential oeuvre has been translated into many languages and continues to shape global culture, spirituality, and children’s literature, especially through “The Little Prince," which has become one of the best-selling and most translated books in publishing history and a touchstone for readers exploring themes of innocence, loss, and the invisible bonds that connect human beings. Cause of Death= On 31 July 1944, during World War II, he took off from an Allied airfield on the island of Corsica in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning on a photographic reconnaissance mission over occupied France and never returned. He is officially listed as missing in action and presumed killed in action after his aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille, with the later discovery of aircraft wreckage and an identification bracelet off the coast of Marseille confirming the crash site but leaving the exact cause of the accident unresolved, with possibilities including being shot down by a German fighter, mechanical failure, or pilot incapacitation.