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| | co-compiler and scribe of the Annals of the Four Masters. As a young man, he participated in the compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters, working with MÃcheál Ó Cléirigh, Cú ChoigcrÃche Ó Cléirigh, Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain and other assistants. Fearfeasa was the author of many poems, one of which was Mochean do[d] chuairt a Chalbhaigh, addressed to An Calbhah Ruadh Ó Domhnaill. | |
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| | Fearfeasa O Maol Chonaire | unknown | 1620 | | 1649 | unknown |
 | Thomas Harriot | 1560 ca | 1580 | | 1621 | 1621, Jul 2 | | | an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with... | | William Strachey | 1572, Apr 4 | 1605 | | 1621 | 1621, Jun 21 | | | an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English ... | | Richard Argall | unknown | 1621 | | 1621 | unknown | | | a poet, of whom little is known, and whose existence is disputed. His name appears on the title-p... |  | Pedro Paez | 1564 | 1589 | | 1622 | 1622, May 25 | | | a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be th... |  | Ottavio Codogno | unknown | 1599 | | 1623 | unknown | | | the deputy postmaster general of the Duchy of Milan and author of an extensive guidebook to the p... | | John Brinsley the Elder | unknown | 1581 | | 1624 | unknown | | | an English schoolmaster, known for his educational works. His best-known work is Ludus Literarius... | | George Chapman | 1559 ca | 1596 | | 1624 | 1634, May 12 | | | an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influ... |  | Ericus Erici Sorolainen | 1546 | 1583 | | 1625 | 1625 | | | a Finnish Lutheran bishop, a Bishop of Turku from 1583 to 1625 as the successor to Paulus Juuste... | | King James I | 1566, Jun 19 | 1603 | | 1625 | 1625, Mar 27 | | | King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland (and Supreme Head... | | John Fletcher [1] | 1579, Dec | 1606 | | 1625 | 1625, Aug | | | a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he w... |  | Willem Schouten | 1567 ca | 1615 | | 1625 | 1625 | | | a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route ... | | Francis Bacon | 1561, Jan 22 | 1579 | | 1626 | 1626, Apr 9 | | | an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both... | | Robert Naunton | 1563 | 1606 | | 1626 | 1635, Mar 27 | | | an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 an... | | Thomas Smith [1] | unknown | 1600 | | 1627 | unknown | | | an English soldier. Smith as he styles himself on the title-page of the first edition (4to, 1600)... | | John Preston | 1587, Oct | 1611 | | 1627 | 1628, Jul 20 | | | an Anglican cleric and master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. About 1611, the year in which he co... | | Samuel Rowlands | 1573 ca | 1598 | | 1628 | 1630 | | | an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of lower... | | George Silver | unknown | 1550 | | 1629 | unknown | | | a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writin... |  | Johannes Buxtorf | 1564, Dec 25 | 1589 | | 1629 | 1629, Sep 13 | | | a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine ye... | | Oliver Almond | unknown | 1590 | | 1629 | unknown | | | a Roman Catholic priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to hav... | | Thomas Beard | unknown | 1590 | | 1629 | 1632 | | | an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of The Theatre o... | | Nicolas de Cardona | unknown | 1610 | | 1629 | unknown | | | a Spanish entrepreneur and adventurer with residence in Seville, who was involved in the explorat... | | John Ashmore | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown | | | the first who attempted a translation into English of selected odes of Horace. In 1621 he publis... | | Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown | | | the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The identity of Fe... | | Diego Beltran Hidalgo | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown | | | a seventeenth century Spanish Marrano poet. The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an edi... |  | Patrick Scot | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown | | | a Scottish official, tutor and author. He followed James VI of Scotland to England on his accessi... | | Johannes Kepler | 1571, Dec 27 | 1594 | | 1630 | 1630, Nov 15 | | | a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific r... | | Edmund Howes | unknown | 1607 | | 1631 | unknown | | | an English chronicler. Howes lived in London, and designated himself "gentleman". Undeterred by J... | | Randle Cotgrave | unknown | 1590 | | 1632 | 1634 | | | an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published A Dictionarie of the French and En... | | Henry Wotton | 1568, Mar 30 | 1588 | | 1633 | 1639, Dec | | | an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. Of 2... | | John Harrison [1] | unknown | 1610 | | 1633 | unknown | | | an English representative in Morocco in the 17th century. James I of England sent John Harrison t... | | George Abbot | 1562, Oct 19 | 1611 | | 1633 | 1633, Aug 5 | | | an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633 for the Church of England. H... | | Felix Lope de Vega | 1562, Nov 25 | 1594 | | 1634 | 1635, Aug 27 | | | a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Cent... | | John Marston | 1576, Oct 7 | 1598 | | 1634 | 1634, Jun 25 | | | an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. His ca... | | Geoffrey Keating | 1569 ca | 1603 | | 1634 | 1644 ca | | | a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Grave... | | Patrick Anderson | unknown | 1618 | | 1635 | unknown | | | a physician and author. Anderson was the author of ‘The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig’ (161... | | Peregrine O Duibhgeannain | unknown | 1627 | | 1636 | unknown | | | an Irish historian and chronicler. Nothing is known of his life and activities until he began wor... | | Seamus O Siaghail | unknown | 1636 | | 1636 | unknown | | | an Irish scribe. Ó Siaghail was a member of the Ó Siadhail bardic family that had lived in Uà ... | | Fearfeasa O'Mulconry | unknown | 1636 | | 1636 | unknown | | | an Irish chronicler. He contributed to The Annals of the Four Masters. He belonged to a family of... | | William Alabaster | 1567, Feb 27 | 1592 | | 1637 | 1640, Apr 28 | | | an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain wh... | | Ben Jonson | 1572, Jun 11 | 1598 | | 1637 | 1637, Aug 6 | | | an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerte... | | Robert Fludd | 1574, Jan 17 | 1605 | | 1637 | 1637, Sep 8 | | | a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is rememb... | | Galileo Galilei | 1564, Feb 15 | 1581 | | 1638 | 1642, Jan 8 | | | an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major rol... | | Johann Heinrich Alsted | 1588, Mar | 1608 | | 1638 | 1638, Nov 9 | | | a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, ... | | Nicholas Bradshawe | unknown | 1630 | | 1639 | unknown | | | an English writer. Very little is known about the details of his life. He was a fellow of Balliol... | | Robert Beaumont | unknown | 1639 | | 1639 | unknown | | | Master of Trinity College Cambridge from 1561 to 1567 and twice Vice-Chancellor of the University... |  | Xu Xiake | 1587, Jan 5 | 1607 | | 1640 | 1641, Mar 8 | | | a Chinese travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, known best for his famous geographica... | | Richard Bernard | 1568 | 1598 | | 1641 | 1641 | | | an English Puritan clergyman and writer. Barnard was a Calvinist Puritan, but a moderate one. Ber... | | Edward Finch | unknown | 1630 | | 1641 | unknown | | | an English Royalist divine. On 9 December 1630 Edward was admitted to the vicarage of Christ Chur... | | James Shirley | 1596, Sep | 1625 | | 1642 | 1666, Oct | | | an English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lam... | | Sir John Suckling | 1609, Feb 10 | 1631 | | 1642 | 1642 ca | | | an English poet and a prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit, the acco... |  | Charles de Valois | 1573, Apr 28 | 1589 | | 1643 | 1650, Sep 24 | | | a French royal bastard, count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and memoirist. Charles de Valois w... | | Joseph Hall | 1574, Jul 1 | 1597 | | 1643 | 1656, Sep 8 | | | an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and... | | Francisco Pacheco | 1571 | 1611 | | 1644 | 1654 | | | a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Can... | | Hugo Grotius | 1583, Apr 10 | 1599 | | 1645 | 1645, Aug 28 | | | a Dutch jurist. Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, Grotiu... | | John Abbot | 1587/88 | 1623 | | 1647 | 1650 ca | | | an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been Lond... | | Thomas Edwards [2] | 1599 ca | 1625 | | 1647 | 1647 | | | an English Puritan clergyman. He was a very influential preacher in London of the 1640s, and also... | | Feardorcha O Meallain | unknown | 1641 | | 1647 | unknown | | | an Irish poet the reputed author of An DÃbirt go Connachta. He is said to have been a Franciscan... | | Matthew Hopkins | 1620 ca | 1644 | | 1647 | 1647, Aug 12 | | | an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He claimed to hold ... | | Anthony Knivet | unknown | 1591 | | 1649 | unknown | | | an English sailor who fell into Portuguese hands in Brazil, lived for a while with a native Brazi... | | Andre du Ryer | 1580 ca | 1630 | | 1649 | 1660/1672 | | | a French orientalist who wrote the third western translation of the Qur'an. He was a diplomatic a... | | Jasper Fisher | 1591 | 1630 | | 1649 | unknown | | | an English divine and dramatist. About 1631 (according to Anthony Wood) he became rector of Wilsd... | | William Drury | unknown | 1640 | | 1649 | unknown | | | an English dramatist. Drury was an English gentleman "of singular parts and learning". He was for... | | Edmund Gregory | 1615 ca | 1640 | | 1649 | unknown | | | an English author. The son of Henry Gregory, rector of, and benefactor to, Sherrington, Wiltshire... | | Naftali Hertz | unknown | 1640 | | 1649 | unknown | | | a German rabbi, born in Frankfurt, author of the controversial work Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the ... | | Anna Hume | unknown | 1640 | | 1649 | unknown | | | a Scottish translator, poet and writer. Controversy surrounded her publication of History of the ... | | James Yorke | unknown | 1640 | | 1649 | unknown | | | an English heraldic writer. He wrote a compilation on heraldry and genealogy that appeared in fol... | | Rene Descartes | 1596, Mar 31 | 1619 | | 1650 | 1650, Feb 11 | | | a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosoph... | | Niccolo Cabeo | 1586, Feb 26 | 1620 | | 1650 | 1650, Jun 30 | | | an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. He is noted for his contri... | | Tarlach O Meallain | unknown | 1641 | | 1650 | unknown | | | an Irish Franciscan, author of CÃn Lae Uà Mhealláin. Tarlach was the chaplain to Felim ... | | John Selden | 1584, Dec 16 | 1612 | | 1652 | 1654, Nov 30 | | | an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish ... | | John Smith [3] | 1618 | 1644 | | 1652 | 1652, Aug 7 | | | an English philosopher, theologian, and educator. Smith entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1... | | Pierre Gassendi | 1592, Jan 22 | 1617 | | 1653 | 1655, Oct 24 | | | a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po... |  | Theodore Tronchin | 1582, Apr 17 | 1608 | | 1655 | 1657, Nov 19 | | | a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel... | | Edward Fisher | unknown | 1627 | | 1655 | unknown | | | an English theological writer. He is generally considered the author of The Marrow of Modern Divi... | | Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld | 1605 | 1629 | | 1655 | 1655, Feb 16 | | | a German philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen. A follower of Ramus and pupil... | | Margherita Costa | 1600 ca | 1628 | | 1657 | 1657 | | | a singer, poet, playwright and feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian w... |  | Menasseh Ben Israel | 1604 | 1632 | | 1657 | 1657, Nov 20 | | | a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebr... | | Henry Cockeram | unknown | 1623 | | 1658 | unknown | | | an English lexicographer. In 1623, he authored the third known English Language dictionary, and t... | | Henry Robinson | 1604 ca | 1640 | | 1659 | 1664 ca | | | an English merchant and writer. He is best known for a work on religious toleration, Liberty of C... | | Blaise Pascal | 1623, Jun 19 | 1642 | | 1659 | 1662, Aug 19 | | | a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child pro... | | Anthony Jenkinson | 1529 | 1550 | | 166 | 1610/1611 | | | one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and... | | Saul Levi Morteira | 1596 ca | 1616 | | 1660 | 1660, Feb 10 | | | a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. Morteira was the founder of the congregational school Keter ... | | Claude Lancelot | 1615 ca | 1638 | | 1660 | 1695 | | | Born in Paris, later to become a Jansenist monk and grammarian. Helped to establish the Petites Ã... | | Nathaniel Bacon [3] | 1593, Dec 12 | 1645 | | 1660 | 1660 | | | an English Puritan lawyer, writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times... | | Thomas Fuller | 1608 | 1630 | | 1661 | 1661, Aug 16 | | | an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worth... | | Laurence Clarkson | 1615 | 1646 | | 1661 | 1667 | | | an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose c... | | Robert Abbot [1] | 1588 ca | 1610 | | 1662 | 1662 ca | | | an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the... | | William Aspinwall | unknown | 1648 | | 1662 | unknown | | | a nonconformist English minister. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no... | | Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh | unknown | 1624 | | 1664 | unknown | | | an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Along with Brother MÃ... | | Mildmay Fane | 1602, Jan 24 | 1621 | | 1666 | 1666, Feb 12 | | | an English nobleman, politician, and writer. One hundred and thirty seven poems by Fane appeared ... | | William Day | 1605 ca | 1624 | | 1666 | 1684 | | | an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele... | | Jean Ogier de Gombauld | 1576 | 1624 | | 1666 | 1666 | | | a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a ... | | Ismael Bullialdus | 1605, Sep 28 | 1632 | | 1667 | 1694, Nov 25 | | | a famous astronomer and mathematician during the seventeenth century. He published several books,... | | Pierre Corneille | 1606,Jun 6 | 1629 | | 1668 | 1684, Oct 1 | | | a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French ... | | Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | 1605 | 1630 | | 1668 | 1689 | | | a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant tra... | | John Wilkins | 1614, Feb 14 | 1637 | | 1668 | 1672, Nov 19 | | | an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal S... | | John Knowles [1] | unknown | 1646 | | 1668 | unknown | | | an English antitrinitarian preacher, imprisoned in 1665. A short paper of arguments for the deity... | | John Trapp | 1601, Jun 5 | 1622 | | 1669 | 1669, Oct 16 | | | an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i... | | William Prynne | 1600 | 1627 | | 1669 | 1669, Oct 24 | | | an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent ... | | John Webb | 1611 | 1628 | | 1669 | 1672, Oct 24 | | | an English architect and scholar. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English... | | Madeleine de Souvre | 1599 | 1640 | | 1669 | 1678, Jan 16 | | | a French writer, was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XI... | | 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... | | 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... | | 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... | | 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... | | 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... | | 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 ... | | John Bunyan | 1628, Nov | 1644 | | 1688 | 1688, Aug 31 | | | an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory | | John Evelyn | 1620, Oct 31 | 1640 | | 1694 | 1706, Feb 27 | | | an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneou... | | 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... |
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