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2002 Death - Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/adventurer, Kon-Tiki, dies at 87

1999 Death - Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, The Natural Superiority of Women, dies at 94

1996 Death - Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72

1994 Death - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69

1994 Death - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42

1994 Death - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53

1990 Death - Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist/writer, dies

1987 Event - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young

1978 Death - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76

1977 Death - Loren C Eiseley, U.S. anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69

1973 Death - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95

1972 Death - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Death - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Death - Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70

1965 Death - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73

1963 Death - Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, U.S. anthropologist/writer, dies at 61

1956 Death - Siegfried F Nadel, Australia/British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52

1951 Birthday - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist

1947 Death - Clark Wissler, U.S. cultural anthropologist, dies at 76

1945 Birthday - Alfred Antony Francis Gell, social anthropologist

1944 Birthday - Richard Leakey, anthropologist

1944 Birthday - Richard [Erskine Frere] Leakey, Nairobi Kenya, anthropologist

1942 Death - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies

1941 Death - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies

1940 Birthday - Erik Erikson, anthropologist

1929 Birthday - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1924 Birthday - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist

1924 Birthday - Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist

1922 Death - William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies

1921 Birthday - Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture

1917 Death - Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84

1916 Death - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73

1914 Birthday - Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer, Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku

1914 Birthday - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist

1908 Birthday - Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist, Structure Anthro

1903 Birthday - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist

1903 Birthday - Louis Leakey, anthropologist, 1964 Richard Hooper Medal

1903 Birthday - Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium

1902 Birthday - Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist/professor

1901 Birthday - Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist

1901 Birthday - Margaret Mead, born in Philadelphia, anthropologist, Coming of Age in Samoa

1901 Birthday - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist

1893 Birthday - Ralph Linton, U.S. cultural anthropologist, Tree of Culture

1893 Birthday - Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist, Eskimos

1892 Birthday - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, Rassenkunde

1887 Birthday - Ruth Benedict, U.S., anthropologist, Patterns of Culture

1881 Birthday - Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist, Andaman Islanders

1877 Birthday - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist, Panji

1876 Birthday - Alfred L. Kroeber, Hoboken, New Jersey, author, Anthropologist looks at History

1870 Birthday - Clark Wissler, anthropologist, American Indian

1869 Birthday - Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum

1868 Birthday - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos

1866 Birthday - Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist

1858 Birthday - Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist, Mind of Primitive Man

1854 Birthday - James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author, The Golden Bough

1853 Birthday - Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system

1842 Birthday - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, schedelmetingen

1832 Birthday - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist

1822 Birthday - Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist

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