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Alexander Selkirk

1676 - 1721

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Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on Cinque Ports, captained by Thomas Stradling, under the overall command of William Dampier. Stradling's ship stopped to resupply at the uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands, west of South America, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Selkirk is the 163rd most popular military personnel (down from 160th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 326th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Military Personnel.

Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Selkirk ranks 163 out of 2,058. Before him are Pancho Villa, Matilda of Tuscany, Joseph Joffre, Dragut, Dong Zhuo, and Jean Lannes. After him are Robert Peary, Draža Mihailović, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, William Stuart-Houston, Hans Krebs, and Khalifa Haftar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1676, Alexander Selkirk ranks 2. Before him is Francis II Rákóczi. After him are Frederick I of Sweden, Robert Walpole, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Jacopo Riccati, Leonard of Port Maurice, and Michael II Apafi. Among people deceased in 1721, Alexander Selkirk ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement XI, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. After him are Mary Read, Johann Christoph Bach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Charles Vane, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Pierre Daniel Huet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 424 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas De Quincey (1785), Margaret Tudor (1489), William Laud (1573), Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486), Samuel Butler (1835), and William Morris (1834). After him are Vanessa Redgrave (1937), David Harvey (1935), Benjamin Britten (1913), Timothy Dalton (1946), Ken Follett (1949), and William Stuart-Houston (1911).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 9. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Claude Auchinleck (1884), and John Hawkins (1532). After him are William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), Captain Tom (1920), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Rudolf Abel (1903), and Jack Phillips (1887).

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