births
June 7, 1879
Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933)

Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.