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Charles Rolls

1877 - 1910

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Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910) was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Rolls is the 89th most popular engineer (up from 91st in 2019), the 1,482nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,252nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles Rolls ranks 89 out of 389. Before him are Henri Farman, Henry Royce, Immanuel Nobel, Harry Nyquist, Nicola Romeo, and Jack Swigert. After him are Vannevar Bush, Patrick Head, Karl von Terzaghi, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Robert Stephenson, and George Cayley.

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Among people born in 1877, Charles Rolls ranks 52. Before him are Chaim Rumkowski, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Edmund Landau, Otto Gross, Sadao Araki, and Wilhelm Adam. After him are Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Isabelle Eberhardt, Raymond Roussel, Vladimir Minorsky, Léon Flameng, and Renée Vivien. Among people deceased in 1910, Charles Rolls ranks 41. Before him are Auguste Charlois, John La Farge, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Andreas Achenbach, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, and Eliza Orzeszkowa. After him are Henri-Edmond Cross, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Osman Hamdi Bey, Maria Konopnicka, Boutros Ghali, and Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 1,482 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gay (1685), Cliff Williams (1949), David Thewlis (1963), Claire Forlani (1971), Princess Marie of Orléans (1865), and Malcolm Lowry (1909). After him are Victor Turner (1920), Desmond Morris (1928), Edward Fox (1937), Marc Bolan (1947), Emily Davison (1872), and Charles Bennett (1870).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Rolls ranks 11. Before him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Colin Chapman (1928), Charles George Gordon (1833), Adrian Newey (1958), and Henry Royce (1863). After him are Patrick Head (1946), Robert Stephenson (1803), George Cayley (1773), Alexander Cunningham (1814), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and John Loudon McAdam (1756).

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