Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona and at Hochelaga.

31 December 1491

Born on the same birth day (31 December): Curtis Myden • Dal Stivens • Fred Beebe • George C. Marshall • Giovanni Pascoli • Henry I, Duke of Guise • Jane Badler • Jeff Waldstreicher • Jonathan Horton • Margaret Simpson • Mihály Fekete • Muhammad ibn al-Qasim • Nate Freiman • Roy Greenslade • Tony Kanaan • Tyrone Corbin

Born in the same month (December 1491): Martín de Azpilcueta