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Also Known As Juan Sebastián Elcano • Juan Sebastián de Elcano
Born c.1476 • Spain
Died August 4, 1526

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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer
Bertrand Piccard, 1999.
Bertrand Piccard
Swiss aviator
Bougainville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
French navigator
Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Brian Jones, 1999.
Brian Jones
British aviator
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Baron Anson, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1745–46; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
George Anson, Baron Anson
British admiral
Otto von Kotzebue
Russian explorer
Joshua Slocum
Canadian seaman
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Admiral John Byron
John Byron
British admiral
Tobias Furneaux
British explorer
Thomas Cavendish, engraving
Thomas Cavendish
English navigator and explorer
Wiley Post
Wiley Post
American pilot
Robert Gray
American explorer
Krusenstern, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Adam Johann Krusenstern
Russian explorer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Moon, Earth, and Sun diagrammed in Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer