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Famous Birthdays
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
May 21 English poet (The Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer), born in London
- May 25 Christian August Jacobi, German composer, born in Grimma, Leipzig (d. 1725)
Famous Deaths
- May 8 Pierre de Troyes, French officer and explorer in North America (re-took James Bay forts from the English), dies at Fort Niagara [1]
- May 9 Frederick William, Great Elector, ruler of Brandenburg (1640-88), dies at 68
- May 14 Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- May 22 Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 70
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