Tycho Brahe was born on 14 December 1546 in Knutstorp Castle, Scania, Denmark, Denmark-Norway (now Sweden). He died on 24 October 1601 in Prague, Habsburg Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [now Czech Republic].
He owned a pet moose which lived inside his castle and died from falling down a flight of stairs after an acquaintance of Brahe had gotten it particularly drunk on beer.