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Historical Event(s)
– The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land’s End.
– Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
Who Were Born On ?
– François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
– Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
– Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
– Dositheos, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
– Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born queen consort of Poland, wife of King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
– Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
– Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
– John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
– Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
– Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)