Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.

30 December 1899

Born on the same birth day (30 December): Al Smith • Ali Al-Habsi • Alziro Bergonzo • Andra Day • Charles Yorke • Daniel Sunjata • Gordon Banks • Ingus Baušķenieks • Janko Prunk • Joseph Hilbe • Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi • Meredith Monroe • Michael Grimm (musician) • Pedro Costa • Robert Quine • Roy Calne • Vincenzo da Filicaja

Born in the same month (December 1899): Arthur Leslie • Charlie Spencer • DeFord Bailey • Gustaf Gründgens • Harold Abrahams • Howard Kinsey • Humphrey Bogart • Jean de Brunhoff • John Cobb (racing driver) • John Qualen • Julio de Caro • Karl-Günther Heimsoth • Martin Luther King Sr. • Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Noël Coward • Peter Wessel Zapffe • Ray Morehart • Silvestre Revueltas