deaths
April 19, 1955
Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (born 1875)
Jim Corbett
Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent conservation movement.