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Margaret Cavendish
May 30 Margaret Cavendish is the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society, watching demonstrations by Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke [1]
Famous Birthdays
- May 26 Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), born in Vitry-sur-Seine, France (d. 1754)
Famous Deaths
- May 2 George Wither, English writer (Abuses Stript and Whipt), dies at 78
- May 7 Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist, singer, and composer, dies at 50
- May 9 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48), dies at 55
- May 14 Georges de Scudéry, French writer and dramatist (L'Amour tyrannique), dies at 65
- May 16 Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
- May 25 Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
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