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31Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne d' — (baptized July 20, 1661, Ville Marie de Montréal died July 9, 1706, Havana, Cuba, Spanish empire) French Canadian naval hero and explorer. As a young man he led raids on English fur trading posts on Hudson Bay. He commanded expeditions against… …
32Law, John — (baptized April 21, 1671, Edinburgh, Scot. died March 21, 1729, Venice) Scottish monetary reformer. In 1705 he published the banking reform plan Money and Trade Considered, in which, unlike other mercantilists, he proposed a central bank as an… …
33Lawes, Henry and William — (baptized Jan. 5, 1596, Dinton, Wiltshire, Eng. died Oct. 21, 1662, London) (baptized May 1, 1602, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng. died Sept. 24, 1645, Chester, Cheshire) English composers. Both brothers served at the court of Charles I. Henry became… …
34Louvois, François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de — (baptized Jan. 18, 1639, Paris, France died July 16, 1691, Versailles) French secretary of state for war under Louis XIV and his most influential minister (1677–91). The son of Michel Le Tellier (1603–85), one of the most powerful officials in… …
35Marlowe, Christopher — (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng. died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London) British poet and playwright. The son of a Canterbury shoemaker, he earned a degree from Cambridge University. From 1587 he wrote plays for London theatres,… …
36Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban — (baptized Jan. 1, 1618, Sevilla, Spain died April 3, 1682, Sevilla) Spanish painter. The most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th century Spain, he is noted for his idealized figures, most of them painted for religious orders and the… …
37Pachelbel, Johann — (baptized Sept. 1, 1653, Nürnberg died March 3, 1706, Nürnberg) German composer and organist. Conservative musically, he was friendly with Dietrich Buxtehude and was the teacher of Johann Christoph Bach, who later gave lessons to his younger… …
38Quarles, Francis — (baptized May 8, 1592, Romford, Essex, Eng. died Sept. 8, 1644, London) English religious poet. Quarles is remembered for his Emblemes (1635), the most notable of English language emblem books (collections of symbolic pictures, usually with verse …
39Rameau, Jean-Philippe — (baptized Sept. 25, 1683, Dijon, France died Sept. 12, 1764, Paris) French composer and music theorist. Son of an organist, he held organist posts until he was 49. His Treatise on Harmony (1722) established him as a major music theorist. In it he …
40Richardson, Samuel — (baptized Aug. 19, 1689, Mackworth, near Derby, Derbyshire, Eng. died July 4, 1761, Parson s Green, near London) English novelist. After moving with his family to London at age 10, Richardson was apprenticed to a printer before setting up in… …
