Do you perhaps mean Magellan? If I recall correctly, he died near the end of his voyage, but the rest of his crew lived to return home.
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He did not. He died in the Philipenes. His crew did. But they give him credit.
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His voyage was the first to circumnavigate the world, unfortunately he was killed by natives just before making it around the world.
The explorer who discovered the straits around the southern tip of South America in 1520 and whose crew completed first circumnavigation of the world was Ferdinand Magellan. The straits were named after him in his honor.