death_date death_place birth_place other_names birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
22 july 1910 fairbanks , alaska , u.s. fanano , duchy of modena felice pedroni 16 april 1858 discovering gold in the fairbanks area felix_pedro . jpg felix pedro
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felix pedro

felice pedroni -lrb- april 16 , 1858 -- july 22 , 1910 -rrb- , known best to americans by his hispanicized alias felix pedro , was an italian immigrant whose discovery of gold in interior alaska marked the beginning of the 1902 fairbanks gold rush .
