Necrology
Year: 1933
Knud Rasmussen
Born: June 7th, 1879
Died: December 21st, 1933
Famous For: Greenlandic Polar Explorer, Anthropologist, Known as "The Father of Eskimology"
Cause of Death: Pneumonia after a bout of food poisoning
Burial Place: Vestre Kirkegard (Western Cemetery), Copenhagen, Denmark
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