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Amerigo Vespucci (jan 1, 1454 – jan 1, 1512)

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Italian navigator who crossed the Atlantic several times and officially called the land thought by Columbus to be Asia the "New World". Later a German cartographer renamed this land "America" in honor of Vespucci's work.

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jan 1, 1454
jan 1, 1512
~ 58 years