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Born c.970
Died c.1020
Notable Works “Enchiridion”
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Thomas Morley
British composer
Henry Peach Robinson
British photographer
Marcet, Jane
Jane Marcet
English writer
Starling
Ernest Henry Starling
British physiologist
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
English archbishop
Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist
William Lily
English scholar
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
Susanna Rowson
American author and actress
Richard Fitzneale
English bishop
Cheselden, William
William Cheselden
British surgeon and teacher
Ezekiel Cheever
American colonial educator
Edmer
English biographer and historian
Benjamin Harris
British journalist
Abraham Fraunce
English poet
Christopher Simpson
British composer
Alexander Neckam
British scientist and theologian
Cocker, portrait by an unknown artist based on an engraving by Richard Gaywood; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward Cocker
English mathematician
Francis Aidan Gasquet
British cardinal