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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. He survived but died from tropical illness years later while serving as a lieutenant aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa. Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Selkirk has received more than 1,450,064 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 40 in 2019). Alexander Selkirk is the 110th most popular military personnel (down from 5th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 231st in 2019) and the 7th 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 110 out of 1,468Before him are Klaus Barbie, Nestor Makhno, Gaius Julius Caesar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Zhang Fei, and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. After him are Eli Cohen, Abu Muslim, Cimon, Semyon Timoshenko, Erich von Falkenhayn, and Narses.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1676, Alexander Selkirk ranks 1After him are Frederick I of Sweden, Francis II Rákóczi, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Robert Walpole, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Jacopo Riccati, and Stanisław Poniatowski. Among people deceased in 1721, Alexander Selkirk ranks 3Before him are Pope Clement XI and Jean-Antoine Watteau. After him are Mary Read, Charles Vane, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Elihu Yale.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 243 out of 7,765Before him are Harold Wilson (1916), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Law (1671), and Ken Loach (1936). After him are Clement Attlee (1883), James George Frazer (1854), David Gilmour (1946), Bobby Charlton (1937), Timothy Dalton (1946), and Roger Waters (1943).

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