List of Famous Anthropologists - Biographies, Timelines, Trivia & Life History

Birthdate: January 16, 1932

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Died: December 26, 1985

Zoologist, primatologist, and conservationist Dian Fossey conducted research on mountain gorillas in Rwanda from 1966 until she was murdered in 1985. She was part of the Trimates assigned to study apes by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. She wrote Gorillas in the Mist, which was later turned into a film.