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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
German composer
Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher
Mustafa ibn Kamal al-Din al-Bakri
Syrian sufi and writer
Jonathan Swift
Irish satirist and essayist
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
Colley Cibber
British poet laureate
George Berkeley
Anglo-Irish philosopher
Samuel Richardson
English writer and printer
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist
John Vanbrugh
English architect and dramatist
Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher
Hakuin Ekaku
Japanese Zen Buddhist master
Domentius IV of Georgia
Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia
Alexander Pope
English poet
彭端淑
Chinese writer
Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes
French noble
François Noe͏̈l
Flemish missionary and translator
Ludwik Sienicki
Polish writer
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
English politician and Earl
John Komnenos Molyvdos
Henry Carey
English composer and playwright
Domenico Lalli
Italian librettist and writer
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet and librettist
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British statesman and man of letters
François Fénelon
Catholic archbishop
Samuel Wesley
Clergyman of the Church of England, poet and writer
Sulayman al-Mahuzi
Safavid-Bahraini Islamic jurist and poet
Ludvig Holberg
Danish-Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian
Montesquieu
French social commentator and political thinker
Joseph Addison
Politician, writer and playwright
Jean-Jacques Bel
Bel, Jean-Jacques, conseiller to the Parlement of Bordeaux; b. Bordeaux 3-20-1693; d. Paris 8-15-1738; the Dict. néologique was a collaboration between Desfontaines and Bel
Joseph Pitts (author)
Englishman enslaved by Barbary pirates
John Arbuthnot
Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London
Jan Frans Cammaert
French playwright and actor
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
English politician and Viscount
Thomas Moore
English playwright
Bernard Mandeville
Anglo-Dutch academic
Gemelli Careri
Italian explorer
James Anderson
Scottish writer and minister born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland
Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos
Spanish diplomat and writer