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
