Gunnar Kaasen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gunnar Kaasen

musher

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1882

Place of Birth: Burfjord, Northern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1960

Profession: musher, gold mining in Alaska

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gunnar Kaasen (March 11, 1882 – November 27, 1960) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S.
city from an epidemic.