John Ross (Royal Navy officer)

Sir John Ross was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica.

24 June 1777

Born on the same birth day (24 June): Athanase David • Brock Olivo • Claude Bourbonnais • Claude Chabrol • Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg • Erika Andreeva • Micah Richards • Ruth Randall Edström • William Arnold (settler) • Yuri Kasparyan

Born in the same month (June 1777): David Daniel Davis • Jean-Jacques Lartigue • Robert Clark (New York politician)