Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal dies at the age of 75 from stomach cancer. De Waal was known for his work demonstrating that non-human primates are also endowed with abilities deemed human.
In 2007, Time magazine named him “one of the 100 most influential people in the world” world. He moved to the United States in 1981, before settling in Atlanta to teach at Emory until his retirement in 2019. He was born in 1948 in's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.