Françoise Bertaut de Motteville

•  Andrew Marvell

  Andrew Marvell (31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, Parliamentarian, and the son of a Church of England clergyman (also named Andrew Marvell). As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert. He was a colleague and friend of John Milton. Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Kingston upon Hull.

  

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•  Jean de La Fontaine

  Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621 – April 13, 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi starring Laurent Deutsch).

  

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•  Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé

  

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•  John Wildman

  Sir John Wildman (c. 1621 – 2 June 1693) was an English soldier and politician. Wildman was born in the Norfolk town of Wymondham, the son of Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman. His father was a butcher. John was educated as a sizar (a poor scholar who had to work as a servant to pay his way) at Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge taking an MA in 1644. He appears to have married twice, but sources differ wildly on the identities of the wives.

  

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•  Avvakum

  Avvakum Petrov (November 20, 1620 or 1621 – April 14, 1682) was a Russian protopope of Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar, Boyarynya Morozova and other Old Believers are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature. Starting in 1652 Nikon, as Patriarch of the Russian Church, initiated a wide range of reforms in Russian liturgy and theology.

  

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•  Rutger von Ascheberg

  Count Rutger von Ascheberg (1621–1693) was a soldier, officer and civil servant in Swedish service, being appointed Lieutenant General in 1670, General in 1674, Field Marshal in 1678, Governor General of the Scanian provinces, i.e. the Swedish provinces of Scania, Halland and Blekinge, in 1680, and Royal Councilor in 1681.

  

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•  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  

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•  Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

  Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Amsterdam, August 19, 1621 – Amsterdam, October 22, 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

  

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•  Amakusa Shirō

  Amakusa Shirō (天草 四郎, c.1621? - April 12, 1638) also known as Masuda Shirō Tokisada was the teenage leader of the Shimabara Rebellion.

  

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•  Francis Lovelace

  Francis Lovelace (1621–1675) was the third son of Sir William Lovelace (1584–1627) and his wife Anne Barne of Lovelace Place, Bethersden and Woolrich, Kent. He was the younger brother of Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier poet. The Bethersden Lovelace lineage was founded in 1367 by John Lovelace, six generations before Francis, and has been confused over the years with the Hurley Lovelaces who were raised to the House of Lords.

  

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• 1621 births by likeorhate
• 1689 deaths by likeorhate
• French memoirists by likeorhate
• French nobility by likeorhate
• French women writers by likeorhate
• 17th-century French writers by likeorhate

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•  North Tyneside

  North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear in the North East of England. Its seat is at the Town Hall, Wallsend. Created in 1974, the borough lies within the historic county boundaries of Northumberland.

  

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•  Fernando Llorente

  Fernando Llorente Torres is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Athletic Bilbao, in Spain's first division, and also for the Spanish national football team.

  

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•  No. 151 Squadron RAF

  151 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force.

  

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•  Bavnehøj-Hallen

  Bavnehøj-Hallen is an indoor sports arena in Copenhagen, Denmark primarily used for handball. The arena is home to Danish Handball League side Ajax Heroes.

  

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•  Al-Ittihad (Qatar)

  

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