The Scandinavian peninsula, is a peninsula located at the northwest corner of Europe and encloses the Baltic Sea. It extends from Russia and Finland in the north and almost reaches Denmark in the south. It contains the countries Norway on the west and Sweden on the east and is named from the Scandinavian mountain range separating the two countries.
... 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, ...