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Born c.1602 • England
Died February 1666 or April 1666 • England
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American financier
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
Rosenbach, A.S.W.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
American book collector
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev
Russian statesman
James Lenox
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Berthold Laufer
American anthropologist
Henry E. Huntington
American railroad magnate
Apellicon Of Teos
Greek librarian
Reggie Doherty
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Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
Laurie Doherty
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
Joseph Severn
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Ernest Renshaw
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Katharine O’Shea
Irish nationalist
Enoch Wood
English potter
Sydney Greenstreet
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