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an Irish poet. A son of Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird, Diarmaid was a member of the Clann Mac an Bhaird and one of the last classically trained bardic file (poet). He appears to have lived in what is now County Monaghan though he clearly had associations with Clandeboye, as a poem he addressed to Cormac O Neill is preserved in Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe. He is also remembered for being involved in a poetic contention with Eoghan O Donnghaile of TÃr Eógain as to which of them had the right to use the Red Hand of Ulster (see Flag of Ulster) as an emblem.
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William Brough unknown 1630 1671 1671 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La... Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh unknown 1640 1671 unknown an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist. He was one of the last traditionally trai... Moise Vauquelin unknown 1650 1672 unknown An officer under François l'Ollonais, he also had a partnership with Pierre Le Picard. In his l... Ingen Ryuki 1592, Dec 7 1620 1673 1673, May 19 a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob... Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic 1600, Jun 30 1633 1673 1676, Oct 16 a Czech Catholic aristocrat, poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early ... Salvator Rosa 1615, Jun 20/Jul 21 1634 1673 1673, Mar 15 an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. A... Moliere 1622, Jan 15 1643 1673 1673, Feb 17 a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in We... Robert Herrick 1591, Aug 1623 1674 1674, Oct a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T... John Milton 1608, Dec 9 1623 1674 1674, Nov 8 an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of Engl... Lucidor 1638 1669 1674 1674, Aug 13 a Swedish baroque poet. He is remembered for his burlesque poetry that is seen as foreshadowing t... Thomas Hobbes 1588, Apr 5 1608 1675 1679, Dec 4 an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book L... Roger Williams 1603, Dec 21 ca 1628 1676 1683, Jan-Mar a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was expelled by the P... Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Dec 7 1609 1678 1680, Nov 28 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc... Thomas Ady unknown 1630 1679 unknown an English physician and humanist who was the author of three sceptical books on witchcraft and w... Thomas Watson [2] 1620 ca 1646 1679 1686 an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin... Henry Fell unknown 1650 1679 unknown a Quaker missionary and writer. The first mention of him is in 1656 as suffering much from the ma... George Hartgill unknown 1590 168 unknown an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k... Denzil Holles 1599, Oct 31 1624 1680 1680, Feb 17 an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu... William Robertson unknown 1650 1680 unknown a Scottish Hebraist. He was educated at Edinburgh University, taught Hebrew in London from 1653â€... Thomas Browne 1605, Oct 19 1637 1682 1682, Oct 19 an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields i... Guarino Guarini 1624, Jan 7 1648 1683 1683, Mar 6 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H... John Archer unknown 1660 1684 unknown a court physician in the reign of Charles II. Of his origin nothing is certainly known; but he wa... Edmund Waller 1606, Mar 3 1624 1686 1687, Oct 21 an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ... Basil Ringrose unknown 1653 1686 unknown surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific... Ferghal Dubh O Gadhra unknown 1655 1686+ unknown an Irish cleric and scribe. O Gadhra was the compiler of the O Gara Manuscript (now RIA MS 23 F 1... John Bunyan 1628, Nov 1644 1688 1688, Aug 31 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory Anna Weamys unknown 1650 1688 unknown an English author. Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydne... Elizabeth Cellier unknown 1668 1688 unknown a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 fo... Colonel Cuthbert Potter 1637 ca 1653 1690 1691 Born in England and died in Barbados. He practiced law in Lancaster County, Virginia, as early as... Rhys Cadwaladr unknown 1666 1690 1690 a Welsh language poet and classical scholar, born in Conwy, north Wales. Died in 1690. He wrote a... Michael Wigglesworth 1631 1651 1691 1705 a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early N... Samuel Pepys 1633, Feb 23 1655 1691 1703, May 26 an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most well known for the diary ... John Evelyn 1620, Oct 31 1640 1694 1706, Feb 27 an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneou... Matsuo Basho 1644 1662 1694 1694 the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bash? was recognized for hi... Daibhidh O Duibhgheannain unknown 1651 1696 unknown an active Iriish scribe, compiler and poet between the years 1651 and 1696. In the earliest of hi... Edward Phillips 1630, Aug 1651 1696 1696 ca an English author. His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chie... Marie de Rabutin-Chantal 1626, Feb 5 1651 1696 1696, Apr 17 a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their... Robert Anderson unknown 1668 1696 unknown an English mathematician and silk-weaver. He wrote articles and books devoting special attention... William Wycherley 1641 ca 1659 1697 1716, Jan 1 an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife ... Gaspar Sanz 1640 1660 1697 1710 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ... Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin 1645 1669 1697 1707 a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourceboo... Thomas Neale 1641 1664 1698 1699 an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equiva... Joan Baptista Aguilar unknown 1655 1699 1714 a dramatic author and poet who lived in Valencia, Spain from his birth until his death in 1714. I... Jacques-Benigne Bossuet 1627, Sep 27 1643 1701 1704, Apr 12 a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside... Roger L'Estrange 1616, Dec 17 1639 1702 1704, Dec 11 an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved i... Philipp Spener 1635, Jan 13 1653 1702 1705, Feb 5 a German Christian theologian known as the "Father of Pietism." Highly influenced by Johann Arndt... John Locke 1632, Aug 29 1660 1704 1704, Oct 28 an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlighten... Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1636, Nov 1 1656 1711 1711, Mar 13 a French poet and critic. Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Bla... Willem Sewel 1653, Apr 1668 1720 1720, Mar a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. He was son of Jacob Williamson Sewel, a free cit... Pierre Daniel Huet 1630, Feb 8 1651 1721 1721, Jan 26 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq... Isaac Newton 1642, Dec 25 1665 1726 1726, Mar 20 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ... Constantin Christian Dedekind 1628, Apr 2 1652 178 1715 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
