1963 Death Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies 1878 Birthday Isaiah Bowman, U.S., geography/co-founder, Geographical Review 1868 Birthday Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm 1866 Birthday Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist, Vulkankunde 1835 Birthday Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist, Andree's Handatlas 1826 Birthday Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography, Volkerkunder 1783 Death Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 1779 Birthday Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography 1531 Birthday Philipp Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German geography/cartographer
