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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
John Dyer
Welsh cleric, poet and painter
Jan Frans Cammaert
French playwright and actor
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
English politician and Viscount
Thomas Moore
English playwright
李孚青
Chinese poet
Bernard Mandeville
Anglo-Dutch academic
Gemelli Careri
Italian explorer
James Anderson
Scottish writer and minister born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland
Israel Holmström
Swedish poet
Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos
Spanish diplomat and writer
John Lewis
English cleric and antiquarian, born 1675
Johann Gottfried Gregorii
German writer
Louis de Montfort
French Roman Catholic priest and confessor
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Italian Catholic bishop
Matthew Henry
Theologian from Wales
Daniel Wilhelm Triller
German writer
Nicholas Rowe
English poet, writer
Edward Young
English poet
George Psalmanazar
French writer
Vakhtang VI of Kartli
King of Georgia
Johann Balthasar von Antesperg
German writer
Benedetto Marcello
Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher
John Dennis
British dramatist
Ahmed Resmî Efendi
Ottoman historian
Jacques Abbadie
French Protestant minister and writer, Dean of Killaloe in Ireland
Samuel Sewall
Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts
Pietro Ottoboni
Catholic cardinal
José de Cañizares
Spanish playwright
Jamie Macpherson
Scottish outlaw
Dimitrie Cantemir
Prince of Moldavia
John Jackson
English clergyman, born 1686
Henri-Jacques de Caumont, duc de La Force
French nobleman
John Burton
Scholar
Hugh Jones
American mathematician and educator
Andrea Perrucci
Italian playwright and librettist
Robert Nelson
English philanthropist and religious writer
George Farquhar
Irish dramatist