A humpback whale fluke - all unique like human fingerprints
In the year 1615, forces under shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, and thus begins a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years (Jun 4), several Spanish Basque whalers on a whaling expedition to the Westfjords Peninsula of Iceland are killed as they end up in a conflict with the locals (Oct) - and all these fine people were born:
1615-xxxx Maria Nikuntytär Aro** (b Knuuttila) mother of Tuomas Sipinpoika Seppä - Kauhajoki, Sweden-Finland (1697/77-86) aby
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1615-xxxx Lorentz Creutz* baron/government administrator/ county governor - Sweden (1676/c.61)
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1615-xxxx Gregorius Grels Johannis** priest/ father of Petrus Georgii Salmenius - Sweden-Finland (c.1643)
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1615-xxxx Resolved White* Mayflower passenger at age 5/husband of Judith Vassall, daughter of a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony/ notable person of Plymouth Colony - England (1687/c.72)
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1615-0106 Richard Waldron* merchant/ government official in New Hampshire/to America at age 20 - Alcester, Warwickshire, England (1689/74)
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1615-0125 Govert Flinck* painter - Kleve, Dutch Republic (1660/45)
1615-0203 Johannes Gezelius the Elder* bishop active in Turku, Finland - Tillberga, Swedish Empire (1690/74)
1615-0218 Maria Caterina Farnese* Duchess of Modena - Parma, Duchy of Parma and Placenza (1646/31)
1615-0227 Isaac Thornton* lawyer/ politician - Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, England (1669/54)
1615-0311 Johann Weikhard of Auersperg* Prime Minister of Austria - Schloss Žužemberk, Laibach, Duchy of Carniola (1677/62)
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1615-0328 Pieter de Groot* regent/ diplomat - Rotterdam, Dutch Republic (1678/63)
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1615-0416 Edward Rawson* politician in the Massachusetts Bay Colony/to America at age 22 - Dorset, England (1693/78)
1615-0424 Claes Hansson Bielkenstjerna* naval officer/civil servant - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1662/47)
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1615-0530 Richard Neville* Royalist soldier - Waltham St Lawrence, England (1676/61)
1615-0603 Giles Strangways* Royalist politician - Somerset, England (1675/60)
1615-0615 Samuel Sandys* Royalist politician/MP - England (1685/69)
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1615-0701 Samuel Hales* founding settler of Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut - Hertford, England (1693/78)
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1615-0727 Charles de Noyelle* Belgian Jesuit priest - Brussels, Spanish Netherlands (1686/71)
1615-0813 John Sherburne* wealthy pioneer in New Hampshire/to America at age 16 - England (1698/c. 82)
1615-0818 John Sadler* lawyer/ town clerk of London/MP - England (1674/58)
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1615-0903 Mary Bradbury (B) sentenced to hang as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692/managed to evade sentence until the trials were discredited - Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England (1700/85)
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1615-0926 Heinrich Bach* German organist/ composer/member of the Bach family - Wechmar, Thuringia (1692/76)
1615-1001 Hugh Bethell* politician/ High Sheriff of Yorkshire - England (1679/64)
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1615-1023 Ove Juul* Danish nobleman/Vice Governor-general of Norway - Willestrup, Denmark-Norway (1686/70)
1615-1105 Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire* sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1648/32)
1615-1112 Richard Baxter* Nonconformist theologian/church leader - Rowton, Shropshire, England (1691/76)
1615-1120 Francis Dane (B) British-American colonial priest/to America at age 20 - Bishop’s Stortford, England (1697/81)
1615-1207 Nicodemus Tessin the Elder* architect (Drottningholm Palace) - Stralsund, Pomerania, Swedish Empire (1681/65)
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1615-1229 Charles Scarborough* physician/ mathematician - St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Westminster, England (1694/78)
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