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Died 1682
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
John Alden
English colonist
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]
Sidney Webb
British economist
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Poet John Milton
John Milton
English poet
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
queen of England
William I
William I
king of England
Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII
king of England
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More
Thomas More
English humanist and statesman
Henry II and Thomas Becket
Henry II
king of England
Diarist Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
English diarist and naval administrator
Richard III
Richard III
king of England