These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Plaque for Alexander Selkirk in Lower Largo, Scotland.

* William Cowper's The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk is about the feelings of Alexander Selkirk as he lived all alone on the island.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

< poem > Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight

They hunted for their meals, as Alexander Selkirk used,

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk.

* " The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk " by John Howell ( 1829 ) from Google Books

* " The story of Alexander Selkirk " ( 1841 ) by Samuel Griswald on the Internet Archive

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* 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway ( b. 1676 )

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

* June 6 – Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony ( b. 1676 )

* December 13 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor ( original " Robinson Crusoe ") ( b. 1676 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont ( 1676 – 1740 )

Alexander Spotswood ( 1676 – 6 June 1740 ) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and a noted Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Alexander Spotswood was born in the Colony of Tangier, Morocco, Africa, about 1676 to Catharine ( née Maxwell, 1638-December 1709 ) and her second husband, Dr Robert Spottiswoode ( 17 September 1637-1680 ), the Chirurgeon ( surgeon ) to the Tangier Garrison.

In this chapel, bailiff Fra Giovanni Bichi, nephew of Pope Alexander VII, was buried in 1676 after having died due to the plague.

* Francesco Maidalchini, announced the elections of Pope Clement X ( 1670 ), Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 ) and Pope Alexander VIII ( 1689 )

Cardinal Howard assisted at three conclaves, for the election of Innocent XI in 1676, Alexander VIII in 1689, and Innocent XII in 1691, and held the position of Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals.

An ancient fishing village, Lower Largo has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1981 – Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist

* 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer ( b. 1825 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )