Honoré II, Prince of Monaco

•  Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

  Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654) was a French author, best know for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of Académie française.

  

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•  Vincent Voiture

  Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions. Although a follower of Gaston, he won the favour of Cardinal Richelieu, and was one of the earliest members of the Académie Française. He also received appointments and pensions from Louis XIII and Anne of Austria.

  

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•  Martin Opitz

  Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (December 23, 1597 – August 20, 1639) was a German poet, regarded as the greatest of that nation during his lifetime. Opitz was born in Bunzlau (Bolesławiec) in Lower Silesia, the son of a prosperous citizen.

  

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•  John Davenport (Puritan)

  John Davenport (April 9, 1597 – May 30, 1670) was an English puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven.

  

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•  Wang Wei (17th century poet)

  Wang Wei (1597-1647) was a Chinese poet. Orphaned at the age of seven, she became a prostitute in Yangzhou. In later life she was twice married and twice widowed, before becoming a priestess with the name "Taoist Master in the Straw coat". Thereafter she traveled throughout central China on a boat, writing poems celebrating nature. She later traveled to Japan for monetary endeavors and ended up in a brothel again because of finances.

  

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•  Willem Kieft

  Willem Kieft (September 1597, Amsterdam - September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and director-general of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam, later New York City, was the primary settlement), from 1638 until 1647. He formed the council of twelve men, the first representative body in New Netherland, but ignored its advice. Kieft attempted to tax and eventually drive out the Native Americans.

  

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•  Richard Culmer

  Sir Richard Culmer (1597–1662) is listed by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as being of unknown parentage, although some sources indicate that he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Culmer (c. 1574-1633), the first Baron Culmer. According to this tree, Sir Henry, himself a son of a Henry Culmer, had married Mary Baldwyn in 1602, and was created a Baron by King Charles I in 1630, although this is not listed in Burke's Peerage.

  

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•  Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña

  Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña (1597 – c. 1676) was a Spanish missionary and explorer. He was born at Burgos. He was admitted a Jesuit in 1612, and afterwards sent on mission work to Chile and Peru, where he became rector of the college of Cuenca. In 1639 he accompanied Pedro Teixeira in his second exploration of the Amazon, in order to take scientific observations, and draw up a report for the Spanish government.

  

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•  Giovanni Battista Hodierna

  Giovanni Battista Hodierna (Ragusa, April 13, 1597 - Palma di Montechiaro, August 6, 1660) was an Italian astronomer at the court of the Duke of Montechiaro. He compiled a catalog of some 40 entries, including at least 19 real and verifiable nebulous objects. Hodierna was born at Ragusa in Sicily. He died at Palma di Montechiaro.

  

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•  Jean-Charles de la Faille

  Jean-Charles de la Faille or Jan-Karel della Faille (Antwerp, March 1, 1597 - Barcelona, November 4, 1652) was a Flemish Jesuit mathematician. He was born in Antwerp, part of the Spanish Empire at that time, where he was educated by the Jesuits, which order he joined in 1613. He then went to a Jesuit college in Mechelen for two years. Afterwards, he came back to Antwerp where he became a disciple of Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.

  

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• 1662 deaths by likeorhate
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•  Temecula Valley Unified School District

  Temecula Valley Unified School District is the school district for schools in Temecula, and has other schools in Murrieta and Winchester, California.

  

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•  Legal Tender Cases

  The Legal Tender Cases were a series of United States Supreme Court cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. In the 1870 case of Hepburn v. Griswold, the Court had held that paper money violated the United States Constitution. The Legal Tender Cases reversed Hepburn, beginning with Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis in 1871, and then Juilliard v. Greenman in 1884.

  

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•  Százhalombatta

  Százhalombatta is a town in Pest county, Hungary. The name of this town in Hungarian literally means "One hundred tumuli" referring to the tumulus field at the edge of the town.

  

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•  Wills Township, LaPorte County, Indiana

  Wills Township is one of twenty-one townships in LaPorte County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,827.

  

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•  Cauchy-Bunyakowski-Schwarz inequality

  

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