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Badeen: Frivolous, jesting. Via French badine, silly, from Late Latin badare, to gape. Its only literary use is in ...
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Ferrand Spenceunknown1682
 
1686unknown

Guarino Guarini1624, Jan 71648
 
16831683, Mar 6
 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H...
John Archerunknown1660
 
1684unknown
 a court physician in the reign of Charles II. Of his origin nothing is certainly known; but he wa...
Edmund Waller1606, Mar 31624
 
16861687, Oct 21
 an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ...
Basil Ringroseunknown1653
 
1686unknown
 surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific...
Ferghal Dubh O Gadhraunknown1655
 
1686+unknown
 an Irish cleric and scribe. O Gadhra was the compiler of the O Gara Manuscript (now RIA MS 23 F 1...
John Bunyan1628, Nov1644
 
16881688, Aug 31
 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory
Anna Weamysunknown1650
 
1688unknown
 an English author. Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydne...
Elizabeth Cellierunknown1668
 
1688unknown
 a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 fo...
Aphra Behn1640, Dec 14 ca1670
 
16881689, Apr 16
 a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the...
Raveneau de Lussanunknown1679
 
1688unknown
 a French buccaneer. In 1679 he embarked for Santo Domingo in search of fortune, but was unsuccess...
Claude Bendierunknown1670
 
16891677
 a doctor of the Sorbonne, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, and a well-known French bibliophile. Bor...
John Bradshawunknown1670
 
1689unknown
 an English criminal and supposed political writer. He was the son of Alban Bradshaw, an attorney,...
Jasper Danckaerts1639, May 71670
 
16891703 ca
 the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River in Maryland. He was a cooper, and wa...
David Abercrombyunknown1680
 
16891702
 a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer. Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit p...
William Addyunknown1680
 
1689unknown
 a writing-master based in London, and the author of a system of shorthand published in 1685. The ...
Colonel Cuthbert Potter1637 ca1653
 
16901691
 Born in England and died in Barbados. He practiced law in Lancaster County, Virginia, as early as...
Rhys Cadwaladrunknown1666
 
16901690
 a Welsh language poet and classical scholar, born in Conwy, north Wales. Died in 1690. He wrote a...
Michael Wigglesworth16311651
 
16911705
 a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early N...
Samuel Pepys1633, Feb 231655
 
16911703, May 26
 an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most well known for the diary ...
John Evelyn1620, Oct 311640
 
16941706, Feb 27
 an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneou...
Matsuo Basho16441662
 
16941694
 the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bash? was recognized for hi...
Daibhidh O Duibhgheannainunknown1651
 
1696unknown
 an active Iriish scribe, compiler and poet between the years 1651 and 1696. In the earliest of hi...
Edward Phillips1630, Aug1651
 
16961696 ca
 an English author. His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chie...
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal1626, Feb 51651
 
16961696, Apr 17
 a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their...
Robert Andersonunknown1668
 
1696unknown
 an English mathematician and silk-weaver. He wrote articles and books devoting special attention...
William Wycherley1641 ca1659
 
16971716, Jan 1
 an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife ...
Gaspar Sanz16401660
 
16971710
 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ...
Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin16451669
 
16971707
 a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourceboo...
Thomas Neale16411664
 
16981699
 an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equiva...
John Fryer1650 ca1671
 
16981733, Mar 31
 an English doctor and Fellow of the Royal Society, now best remembered for his descriptions of tr...
Joan Baptista Aguilarunknown1655
 
16991714
 a dramatic author and poet who lived in Valencia, Spain from his birth until his death in 1714. I...
John Ayresunknown1680
 
1700unknown
 an English author, scribe and publisher. About 1680 he commenced the execution and publication of...
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet1627, Sep 271643
 
17011704, Apr 12
 a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside...
Roger L'Estrange1616, Dec 171639
 
17021704, Dec 11
 an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved i...
Philipp Spener1635, Jan 131653
 
17021705, Feb 5
 a German Christian theologian known as the "Father of Pietism." Highly influenced by Johann Arndt...
John Locke1632, Aug 291660
 
17041704, Oct 28
 an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlighten...
Estephan El Douaihy1630, Aug 21670
 
17041704, May 3
 He was the 57th Patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1670 to 1704. He is considered one of the m...
Charles Montagu1661, Apr 161683
 
17061715, May 19
 an English poet and statesman. In 1685, Montagu's verses on the death of King Charles II made suc...
Thomas Edwards [3]16521685
 
17071721
 a Welsh divine and orientalist. Edwards was born at Llanllèchid, near Bangor, Carnarvonshire, in...
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux1636, Nov 11656
 
17111711, Mar 13
 a French poet and critic. Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Bla...
Francisco de Artiga16501670
 
17111711
 an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He painted several 'Siby...
Haquin Spegel1645, Jun 141670
 
17141714, Apr 17
 a religious author and hymn writer who held several bishop's seats for the Lutheran Swedish Churc...
William Dampier1651, Sep1673
 
17151715, Mar
 the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn...
Karen Brahe1657, Dec 11683
 
17171736, Sep 27
 a Danish aristocrat and book-collector. Karen became an able administrator of her father's estate...
Samuel Schotten16441685
 
17191719, Jul 5
  He became Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1685. Shmuel Schotten HaCohen was born ...
Willem Sewel1653, Apr1668
 
17201720, Mar
 a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. He was son of Jacob Williamson Sewel, a free cit...
Thomas d'Urfey16531676
 
17201723, Feb 26
 an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He...
Pierre Daniel Huet1630, Feb 81651
 
17211721, Jan 26
 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq...
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach1656, Jul 201671
 
17231723, Apr 5
 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl...
Isaac Newton1642, Dec 251665
 
17261726, Mar 20
 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ...
Cotton Mather1663, Feb 121685
 
17261728, Feb 13
 a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphle...
Richard Blackmore1654, Jan 221682
 
17271729, Oct 9
 an English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example ...
Matthew Tindal16571678
 
17331733, Aug 16
 an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, ...
John Arbuthnot1667, Apr1685
 
17351735, Feb 27
 a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contribution...
Melchior de Polignac1661, Oct 111683
 
17421742, Nov 20
 a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV, Abbé de Poli...
Charlotte-Catherine Patin1672 ca1683
 
17441744
 a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic. Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter...
Gavril Stefanovic Venclovicunknown1680
 
1749unknown
 a Serbian priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator. He was one of the first and...
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin16661680
 
177unknown
 a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. Granddaughter of medical doctor...
Constantin Christian Dedekind1628, Apr 21652
 
1781715
 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
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