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Only child born on Mayflower voyage 1620 1620 Tommy Hughes [7] Australian footballer 1886 Mary Jemison [8] American frontierswoman 1743 Augustus D. Juilliard [9] Founder of the Juilliard School: 1836 Ivan Kelic [10] Australian soccer player 1968 Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace: French navigator 1793 Francis Lathrop [11] American artist 1849 ...
Pages in category "People born at sea" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of sovereign states; List of contemporary ethnic groups; List of indigenous peoples
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
David Higgins (born 1972), rally driver, winner of the 2004 British Rally Championship. Steve Joughin (born 1959), road racing cyclist, two-times winner of the British National Road Race Championships. Peter Kennaugh MBE (born 1989), road and track racing cyclist, gold medallist at the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World ...
An Italian-born Muslim corsair, who later became an Ottoman admiral and Chief Admiral (Kaptan-ı Derya) of the Ottoman Fleet in the 16th century. Nicholas Alvel: early 17th century 1603 England Active in the Ionian Sea. [citation needed] Pedro Menéndez de Avilés: 1519–1574 1565 Spanish
Chay Blyth (born 1940), completed the first westward single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world, 1971; Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), scientist and engineer working at sea; William Harvey Carney (1842–1908), Civil War soldier, previously a sailor; Russ Chauvenet (1920–2003), one of the founders of science fiction fandom ...
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of about 1.6 million people. The list includes notable natives of Sardinia, as well as those who were born elsewhere but spent a large part of their active life in Sardinia. People of Sardinian heritage and descent are in a separate section of this article.