Michael Ancher

Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

9 June 1849

Born on the same birth day (9 June): David Ancrum • Dutch Savage • Eric Fernie • Eric Wynalda • George Jennings (rugby league) • Grant Marshall • Herman Sarkowsky • Irish Meusel • Jason Demers • Ken Navarro • Matt Horsley • Pierre Duhem • Pieter Jansz. Saenredam • Robert McNamara • Wesley Sneijder

Born in the same month (June 1849): John Hunn (governor) • Pedro Montt • Sergei Witte