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Born November 22, 1898 • Texas
Died August 15, 1935 (aged 36) • near Point Barrow • Alaska

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Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
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Robert Gray
American 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
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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
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Otto von Kotzebue
Russian explorer
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Joshua Slocum
Canadian seaman
Admiral John Byron
John Byron
British admiral
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Tobias Furneaux
British explorer
Thomas Cavendish, engraving
Thomas Cavendish
English navigator and explorer
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Juan Sebastián del Cano
Spanish navigator
Krusenstern, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Adam Johann Krusenstern
Russian explorer
Steve Fossett, wearing a flight suit and red harness, smiles while seated in the cockpit of the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft at NASA Kennedy Space Center.
Steve Fossett
American aviator
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James Bradley
James Bradley
English astronomer