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Born November 8, 1723
Died April 10, 1786 (aged 62) • England

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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
Tobias Furneaux
British explorer
Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Otto von Kotzebue
Russian explorer
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Thomas Cavendish, engraving
Thomas Cavendish
English navigator and explorer
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
Brian Jones, 1999.
Brian Jones
British aviator
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Joshua Slocum
Canadian seaman
Wiley Post
Wiley Post
American pilot
Juan Sebastián del Cano
Spanish navigator
Robert Gray
American explorer
Krusenstern, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Adam Johann Krusenstern
Russian explorer
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake
English admiral
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist