Vitus Bering
1681–1741
Danish navigator in Russian service who explored the strait named after him.
Vitus Bering (1681–1741) was an explorer, born in Horsens and died in Bering Island.
- Known as
- Explorer
- Category
- Explorers
- Born
- 1681, Horsens
- Died
- 1741, Bering Island
Alive at the same time as Vitus Bering
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- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
- Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
- Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
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Portrait: Институт Археологии РАН (Institute of Archaeology in Russian Academy of Sciences, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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