In the year 1627, the Dutch ship ’t Gulden Zeepaert makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia (Jan), England lands the first European settlers on Barbados (Feb 17), Ottoman pirates start raiding Iceland (Jun 20) and capture hundreds of Icelanders to be sold into slavery on the Barbary Coast (by Jul 19), rock blasting is invented - and all these fine people were born:

1627-0125 Robert Boyle* chemist/physicist/ inventor - Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland (1691/64)

1627-0221 Philips Augustijn Immenraet* painter/engraver - Antwerp, Belgium (1679/52)

1627-0314 Roelant Roghman* painter/ sketcher/engraver - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1692/64)

1627-0409 Johann Caspar Kerll* Baroque composer/organist - Adorf, the Electorate of Saxony (1693/65)

1627-0502 Philipp Jakob Baudrexel* German theologian/composer/conductor - Füssen, Bavaria (1691/63)
1627-0504 Giuseppe Francesco Borri* physician/ alchemist/prophet - Milano, Italy (1695/68)
1627-0529 Nikolaj Nissen* judge/estate owner - Oldemorstoft, Denmark (1684/56)

1627-0614 Johann Abraham Ihle* German amateur astronomer - Leipzig, the Electorate of Saxony (1699/c.72)

1627-0720 Thomas Wynne* personal physician of William Penn/one of the original settlers of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania - Ysceifiog, Wales (1692/64)

1627-0802 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten* painter/ poet/author on art theory - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1678/51)
1627-0830 Margaretha van Godewijk* poet/painter - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1677/50)

1627-0927 Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet* bishop/theologian/renowned - Dijon, France (1704/76)

1627-1004 Francisco Varo* Dominican friar/missionary in China/linguist - Sevilla, Castille (1687/59)

1627-1116 Erasmus Finx* polymath/ author/writer of Christian hymns - Lübeck (1694/67)
1627-1129 John Ray* biologist - Black Notley, Braintree, England (1705/77)

1627-1224 Daniel Pawłowski* Jesuit/theological writer - Volhynia, Poland (1673/45)

Updated 19.6.2023-1
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