Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 to the 27th of April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who planned and led the 1519 to 1522 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. He became the first European to reach the Strait of Magellan, made the first European crossing of the Pacific Ocean, and made first known European contact with the Philippines.
Ferdinand Magellan was killed on the 27th of April 1521 at the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. He was struck in the face and arm with spears, slashed on the left leg, and finished off by the men of the Mactan chief Lapulapu after wading ashore with a small force.
Ferdinand Magellan did not complete the circumnavigation himself because he died in the Philippines in 1521. His crew, commanded by the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano aboard the Victoria, returned to Spain by the 6th of September 1522, achieving the first circumnavigation of Earth.
King Manuel I of Portugal repeatedly refused to support Magellan's plan to reach the Spice Islands by sailing westward around the American continent. After a quarrel in 1517, Magellan left for Spain and proposed the same plan to King Charles I, who approved it.
Ferdinand Magellan's fleet, the Armada of Molucca, consisted of five ships and about 270 men when it left Spain on the 20th of September 1519. Only one ship, the Victoria, and 18 or 19 survivors returned to Spain in 1522.
Antonio Pigafetta, a survivor loyal to Magellan, wrote the most thorough and reliable account of the circumnavigation. He published his diary, the Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, around 1524, helping to counter the unfavorable accounts spread by Elcano and other mutineers.
Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean and lends his name to the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America. His name was later applied to the Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies in the southern sky, as well as Project Magellan and NASA's Magellan spacecraft.