Film · Literature · Science · 1914–2002

Thor Heyerdahl

Norwegian adventurer who led the Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific

Did you know?Despite being a world-famous explorer of the oceans, he suffered from a lifelong fear of water after a childhood accident.

Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (Norwegian pronunciation:; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Libra

Would be: 112
Age at death: 87
Years since death: 24

Born: October 6, 1914 · Larvik, Norway
Died: April 18, 2002
Cause of death: Brain cancer
Nationality: Norwegian
Known for: Film, Literature, Science

Family

Father: Prut
Mother: Lort
Spouses: Jacqueline Beer, Liv Rockefeller, Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen
Children: Bjorn Heyerdahl, Marian Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl

Explore

Born on the same day6

October 6 →

1887–1965

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who is described as one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ArtWould be 139

Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0

1930–2000

Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsWould be 96

Photo: Government of Syria · Public domain

1903–1995

Ernest Walton

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish experimental physicist.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 123

Photo: Nobel foundation · Public domain

1773–1850

Louis-Philippe I

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the Bourbon family.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyWould be 253

Photo: Unidentified photographer · Public domain

1931–2018

Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi ( jə-KOH-nee, Italian:; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 95

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1831–1916

Richard Dedekind

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (German:; 6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 195

Photo: not found · Public domain

Missing someone? Suggest them

Also Libra4

All →

b. 1952

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsAge 74

Photo: Пресс-служба Президента России · CC BY 4.0