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A merry-go-round at the London Zoo (photo by Elliott Brown)[/caption]
In the year 1620, the first merry-go-round is seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey (May 17), the oldest stone church in French North America is begun in Quebec (Jun 3), Johannes Kepler’s mother is arrested for witchcraft (Aug 7), Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England (Sep 16) and arrives with the pilgrims and planters at Cape Cod in Massachusetts (Nov 21), a severe frost freezes the Thames in London, the modern violin is developed, witch hunts begin in Scotland - and all these fine people were born:
1620-xxxx Sippo Antinpoika Aro** father of Tuomas Sipinpoika Seppä - Kauhajoki, Sweden-Finland (1695/75-75) 1620-xxxx 1620-xxxx Bendix Grodtschilling the Elder* Danish carpenter/painter/ creator of the Throne Chair of Denmark - Itzehoe, Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (1690/c.70) 1620-xxxx Aune Heikintytär Kirkon-Kokko** mother of Yrjänä Mikinpoika Seppälä - Kirkon-Kokko, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1691/66-75) aby 1620-xxxx 1620-xxxx John Sassamon* (b Wussausmon) Native American from the Massachusett tribe/Christian convert/mediator - Massachuset, Punkapoag Plantation (1675/c.54) 1620-0105 Miklós Zrínyi* Croatian-Hungarian military leader/statesman/ poet - Csáktornya, Kingdom of Hungary (1664/44) 1620-0117 Anton Janson* Dutch type finder/printer - Wanden (1687/67) 1620-0204 Gustaf Bonde* Swedish statesman - Pargas, Sweden-Finland (1667/47) 1620-0205 Paul Barbette* celebrated Dutch physician - Free Imperial City of Strasbourg (1665/45) 1620-0214 Edward Digges* barrister/ colonist/Colonial Governor of Virginia - Chilham Castle, Kent, England (1674-1675) 1620-0310 Johann Heinrich Hottinger* theologian/ philologist - Zürich, Switerland (1667/46) 1620-0314 Edward Digges* barrister/ Colonial Governor of Virginia - Chilham Castle, Kent County, England (1674 or 1675) 1620-0331 1620-0415 Edward Villiers (B) courtier/soldier - Brooksby, Leicestershire, England (1689/69) 1620-0418 Winston Churchill* soldier/politician/ancestor of the other Winston Churchill - England (1688/67) 1620-0424 John Graunt* haberdasher/ epidemiologist/founder of demography - London, England (1674/53) 1620-0428 Esaias Mansueti Fellman* clergyman/converter and educator of the Sámi people - Ii, Lapland, Sweden-Finland (1697/77) 1620-0503 Bogusław Radziwiłł* nobleman/ Imperial Prince of the Holy Roman Empire - Danzig, Crown of Poland (1669/49) 1620-0523 Pieter Neefs the Younger (B ) Flemish architecctural painter - Antwerp (after 1675) 1620-05 1620-0606 John Covert* politician/nobleman - Maidstone, Kent, England (1679/58) 1620-0611 John Moore* merchant/Lord Mayor of London - Snarestone, Leicestershire, England (1702/81) 1620-0720 Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder* Dutch classical scholar/ poet/diplomat - Leiden (1681/61) 1620-0721 Jean Picard* astronomer/priest - La Flèche, France (1682/72) 1620-0806 William Hiseland* soldier/ reputed supercentenarian - Wiltshire, England (1732/111) the birthdate is a claimed one 1620-0819 Johann Just Winckelmann* German writer/historian - Gießen, Hesse, Holy Roman Empire (1699/78) 1620-0906 Isabella Leonarda* Italian composer - Novara (1704/83) 1620-0925 François Bernier* physician/ traveller - Joué-Etiau, Anjou, Kingdom of France (1688/67) 1620-1001 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem* painter - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1683/62) 1620-1020 Aelbert Cuyp* painter - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1691/71) 1620-1031 John Evelyn* writer/gardener/diarist - Wotton, Surrey, England (1706/85) 1620-1110 Ninon de l’Enclos* courtesan/ author/patron of the arts - Paris, Kingdom of France (1705/84) 1620-1120 Peregrine White* the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America - onboard Mayflower, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Bay (1704/83) 1620-1218 Heinrich Roth* missionary/pioneering Sanskrit scholar - Dillingen an der Donau, Germany (1668/47) 1620-1223 Johann Jakob Wepfer* pharmacologist/pathologist/the first to hypothesize that the effects of a stroke were caused by bleeding in the brain - Schaffhausen, Switzerland (1695/74) 1620-0 1620-0 1620-0 Updated 18.4.2023-2 Search for another year here