Didrik Pining
German voyager
Didrik Pining was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.
In 1925, researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery. Wikipedia
Born: 1428, Hildesheim, Germany
Died: 1491 (age 63 years), Vardø Municipallity, Norway