Friedrich Parrot

Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Tartu, Estonia in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pioneer of Russian and Estonian scientific mountaineering, Parrot is best known for leading the first expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat in recorded history.

14 October 1791

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alexander von Zemlinsky • Alicja Dorabialska • Bahadur Shah I • Barry Ditewig • Chris Thomas King • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Farah Pahlavi • Ferdinand VII • Harry Anderson • Joey de Leon • Jürg Schubiger • Karyn White • Katha Pollitt • Katherine Mansfield • Kelly Schumacher • Lesley Joseph • Liina-Grete Lilender • Michel Després • Rowan Blanchard • Simon van der Stel • Steve Coogan • W. Edwards Deming

Born in the same month (October 1791): Sergey Aksakov