Henry Hudson used to be an explorer during the 17th century. He is best known for his exploration of area around the present day New York. He did this while trying to find out a western route to the Orient.
He was born on September 12, 1565. However, his exact date of death is unknown, the year being 1611. He sailed in the year 1610 to Iceland, Greenland and reached the Hudson Bay where the ship got trapped in ice.
After the ice cleared in the month of June, 1611, most of his crew members mutinied against him because they wanted to return home and he wanted to carry on. They set him and some of his allies into an open boat with some provisions and none of them were ever seen again.
