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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Kangxi Emperor
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Kangxi Emperor

康熙帝 (爱新觉罗·玄烨)
🇨🇳 Qing Dynasty
1654 – 1722 (68 years old)

Fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty whose 61-year reign is the longest in Chinese history, who consolidated Manchu rule, defeated the Three Feudatories, and commissioned the Kangxi Dictionary.

Zunhua (Hebei), China
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Arts & Music
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Jean-Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau
🇫🇷 Kingdom of France
1684 – 1721 (36 years old)

Pioneering French Rococo painter who invented the 'fête galante' genre, capturing fleeting romantic intimacy, music, and melancholy in 'The Embarkation for Cythera'.

Nogent-sur-Marne, France
William Penn
Humanitarian & Peace
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William Penn

William Penn
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1644 – 1718 (73 years old)

Fondateur de la province de Pennsylvanie, pionnier de la liberté religieuse, de la démocratie participative et des traités de paix équitables avec les Amérindiens.

Jordans, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Maria Sibylla Merian
Arts & Music
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Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian
🇩🇪 Holy Roman Empire
1647 – 1717 (69 years old)

German-Dutch scientific illustrator, botanist, and entomologist whose expedition to Suriname and masterpiece 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium' revolutionized art and science.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ogata Korin
Arts & Music
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Ogata Korin

尾形 光琳
🇯🇵 Japan
c. 1658 – 1716 (58 years old)

Major Japanese painter and lacquer artist of the Edo period who revived and formalized the Rinpa school, world-renowned for his gold-leaf screens Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms.

Kyoto, Japan
Pu Songling
Literature & Poetry
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Pu Songling

蒲松齡 (Pu Liuxian / Liaozhai Xiansheng)
🇨🇳 Ming / Qing Dynasty
1640 – 1715 (74 years old)

Qing dynasty author (1640–1715) renowned for 'Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio' (Liaozhai Zhiyi), a brilliant collection of nearly five hundred classical prose stories featuring ghosts, fox spirits, and sharp moral satires.

Zibo (Shandong), China
Nehemiah Grew
Sciences & Discovery
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Nehemiah Grew

Nehemiah Grew
🇬🇧 England
1641 – 1712 (70 years old)

English physician and plant anatomist who co-founded plant anatomy alongside Malpighi, discovered that flowers are sexual reproductive organs, and published the first scientific description of human fingerprints.

London, United Kingdom
Ole Rømer
Sciences & Discovery
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Ole Rømer

Ole Christensen Rømer
🇩🇰 Denmark
25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710 (65 years old)

Danish astronomer who made the first quantitative measurement of the speed of light in 1676 by observing the timing discrepancies of Jupiter's moon Io during Earth's orbital journey.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Walda Heywat
Philosophy & Thought
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Walda Heywat

ወልደ ሕይወት
🌐 Ethiopian Empire
c. 1633 CE – c. 1710 CE (77 years old)

Ethiopian philosopher and foremost disciple of Zar Yaqob who expanded the Hatata with profound ethical treatises on practical morality, women's rights, and social justice.

Enfraz (near Gondar), Ethiopia
Aurangzeb
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Aurangzeb

محی الدین محمد اورنگزیب عالمگیر
🇮🇳 Mughal Empire
1618 – 1707 (88 years old)

Sixth Mughal Emperor known as Alamgir, whose forty-nine-year reign brought the Mughal Empire to its greatest territorial extent, ruling over 150 million subjects from Kabul to southern India.

Khuldabad (Maharashtra), India
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