Thor Heyerdahl
1914–2002
Norwegian who crossed the Pacific on the Kon-Tiki raft.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was an explorer, born in Larvik, Norway and died in Colla Micheri, Italy.
- Known as
- Explorer
- Category
- Explorers
- Born
- 1914, Larvik, Norway
- Died
- 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy
Alive at the same time as Thor Heyerdahl
- Katharine Hepburn 1907–2003, actress
- Estée Lauder 1908–2004, cosmetics entrepreneur
- Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908–2004, photographer
- Jacques Cousteau 1910–1997, oceanographer
- Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010, sculptor
- Milton Friedman 1912–2006, economist
- Rosa Parks 1913–2005, activist
- Edmund Hillary 1919–2008, mountaineer
- Buzz Aldrin 1930–, astronaut
- Neil Armstrong 1930–2012, astronaut
- Sylvia Earle 1935–, oceanographer
- Valentina Tereshkova 1937–, cosmonaut
Portrait: uncredited, Public domain.
