In the year 1647, the Truce of Ulm ends for a while the power struggle in Bavaria between Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden (Mar 14), Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company (Aug), England’s Puritan rulers ban Christmas, the word geysir is first used in Iceland - and all these fine people were born:
1647-0102 Nathaniel Bacon* Virginia colonist/rebel - Friston Hall, Suffolk, England (1676/29)
1647-0106 William Wall* theologian/ priest - Kent, England (1728/81)
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1647-0217 William Hay* clergyman/ bishop - Aberdeen, Scotland (1707/60)
1647-0217 Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius* German lawyer - Oppenheim (1720/73)
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1647-0301 John de Britto* Jesuit missionary/martyr - Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves (1693/45)
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1647-0316 Arvid Karlsteen* coin engraver/painter of miniature portraits - Gelleråsen, Swedish Empire (1718/71)
1647-0320 Jean de Hautefeuille* abbot/physicist/inventor - Orléans, France (1724/77)
1647-0402 Maria Sibylla Merian* naturalist/entomologist/ scientific illustrator - Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (1717/69)
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1647-0418 Elias Brenner* artist/ antiquarian/numismatist - Isokyrö, Sweden-Finland (1717/69)
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1647-0426 William Ashhurst* banker/ politician/Lord Mayor of London - England (1720/72)
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1647-0520 Basilius Petritz* German composer - Großenhain (1715/68)
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1647-0619 Miles Gale* antiquarian - Farnley Hall, West Yorkshire, England (1721/73)
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1647-0622 Ivan Ratkaj* Croatian Jesuit missionary/explorer/cartographer - Ptuj, Duchy of Styria (1683/36)
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1647-0717 Robertus Dixon* clergyman/ theologian/scientist - Heworth, Northumberland, England (1733/85)
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1647-0722 Margaret Mary Alacoque* Catholic Visitation nun/mystic - L’Hautecour, Duchy of Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1690/43)
1647-0729 Carl Piper* nobleman/statesman - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1716/68)
1647-0804 Giovanni II Cornaro* nobleman/ statesman/Doge of Venice - Venice, Republic of Venice (1722/75)
1647-0812 Johann Heinrich Acker* German writer - Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt (1719/72)
1647-0822 Denis Papin* physicist/ mathematician/ inventor - Chitenay, Kingdom of France (1713/66)
1647-0901 Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark* daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark - Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig (1717/69)
1647-0906 Johannes Gezelius the younger* theologian/Bishop of Turku - Dorpat, Swedish Empire (1718/70)
1647-0923 Joseph Dudley* colonial Governor of Massachusetts - Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1720/72)
1647-1003 Johannes Voet* Dutch lawyer - Utrecht, Dutch Republic (1713/65)
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1647-1111 Johannes Voorhout* Dutch painter - Uithoorn, Dutch Republic (1717/69)
1647-1118 Pierre Bayle* philosopher/ author/lexicographer - Carla-le-Comte, Kingdom of France (1706/59)
1647-1120 Jan Huchtenburg (B) Dutch painter - Haarlem (1733/85)
1647-1204 Daniel Eberlin* German composer/conductor - Nuremberg (1715/c.67)
1647-1207 Giovanni Ceva* Italian mathematician - Milano (1734/86)
1647-1211 Jacob Johan Hastfer* Swedish nobleman/military leader/governor-general of Livonia - Reval, Estonia, Swedish Empire (1695/48)
1647-1222 Nicholas Noyes* colonial minister during the time of the Salem witch trials - Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony , British America (1717/69)
Updated 29.3.2023-1
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