John Ogilby

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Born	November 1600 • Edinburgh? • Scotland
Died	September 4, 1676 (aged 75) • London • England

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Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English poet and translator

George Sandys

English poet and traveler

Manuel Chrysoloras

Greek scholar

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Jacques Delille

French writer

John Martyn

English botanist

Sir Richard Baker

British author

Gilbert Murray

British scholar

Alexander Pope

English author

Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Nicholas Udall

English writer

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

French humanist and theologian

Gawin Douglas

Scottish bishop and poet

Martin Opitz

German poet

Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

John Scotus Erigena

Irish philosopher

Tyrannius Rufinus

Roman priest and writer

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Katina Paxinou

Greek actress

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