On August 4, 1859, Knut Hamsun was born in Lom, Norway to poverty ridden parents, Peder Pedersen and Tora Olsdatter. Knut was their fourth of seven children.
Windsor Davies was a British actor. He is best remembered for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum over its entire run. The show's popularity resulted in Davies and his co-star Don Estelle achieving a UK.
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
Bern Will Brown went to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 as an Oblate priest and travelled extensively by dog team throughout the region. In the early 1960s, he helped found the Hareskin community of Colville Lake, north of the Arctic Circle. He still.