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•  Blaise Pascal

  Blaise Pascal, (June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand – August 19, 1662, Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

  

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•  Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  See Margaret Cavendish (1661–1717) for the later Duchess of Newcastle of this name. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat and a prolific writer. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of prominent royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas. She became an attendant of Queen Henrietta Maria and travelled with her into exile in France, living for a time at the court of the young King Louis XIV.

  

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•  Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna

  Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna (1623–1702), Swedish statesman, was the son of Axel Oxenstierna’s cousin, Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1586–1656).

  

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•  Algernon Sydney

  

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•  William Petty

  Sir William Petty (27 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. He also managed to remain prominent under King Charles II and King James II, as did many others who had served Cromwell.

  

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•  John Playford

  John Playford (1623–1686/7) was a London bookseller, publisher, and member of the Stationers' Company, who published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments, and psalters with tunes for singing in churches. He is perhaps best known today for his publication of The English Dancing Master in 1651. Playford was born in Norwich. He served an apprenticeship with a publisher (John Benson) from 1639/40 to 1647, after which he opened a shop in the porch of Temple Church.

  

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•  François de Laval

  François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of New France and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He was a member of the Montmorency family.

  

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•  Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby

  Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (c. 1623–1657), was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide. He was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, using his father's as his own courtesy title, and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.

  

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•  Zhu Youlang, Prince of Gui

  The Prince of Gui (桂王) or the Yongli Emperor, was an emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in China. His era name means "Perpetual calendar". He was the last surviving Southern Ming emperor who lived long enough to see the collapse of the last vestiges of the Ming dynasty in mainland China. Born Zhu Youlang (朱由榔) sometime in 1623, to Zhu Changying (朱常瀛), the seventh son of the Wanli Emperor.

  

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•  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater

  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater PC (30 May 1623 – 26 October 1686) was an English nobleman. He was a son of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Lady Frances Stanley. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and his wife Alice Spencer. According to the Will of King Henry VIII, his mother, at one time, was second-in-line to inherit England's throne.

  

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•  Harry Nilsson

  Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 — January 15, 1994) was an American songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success as a singer in the mid 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings, he is credited as 'Nilsson' and for the hit singles "Without You", "I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City", "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Coconut".

  

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•  List of universities in Malaysia

  This is a list of universities in Malaysia. Universities in Malaysia are generally categorized as public and private universities. Private universities include Malaysian branches and campuses of foreign universities. The list below is classified by the two main categories, sequencially ordered by their locations according to states.

  

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•  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II.

  

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•  5AA

  5AA (identified in print as FIVEaa) is Adelaide's only commercial talkback radio station, owned by DMG Radio Australia. The station has a range of programs dealing with issues including news, sport, current affairs, social issues, gardening, lifestyle and health. While most programs also have interviews, they are all mostly talk-based.

  

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•  Oldenburg, IN

  

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