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Wheelchair built by Stefan Farfler in 1655[/caption]
In the year 1650, Oliver Cromwell defeats a Scottish army in the Third English Civil War, (Sep 3), Einkommende Zeitungen becomes the first newspaper published in Germany, Ethiopia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries, three-wheeled wheelchairs are invented in the German city of Nuremberg, cafés begin to become popular in Europe - and all these fine people were born:
1650-xxxx Rowland Ellis* Welsh Quaker leader/emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 - Wales (1731/c.81)
1650-0202 Nell Gwyn* actress/royal mistress - London, England (1687/37)
1650-0306 John Conyers* politician - Walthamstow, Essex, England (1725/75)
1650-0318 Klaes Jenderjan* rich merchant/civil servant - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1704/53)
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1650-0420 William Bedloe* fraudster/ Popish Plot informer - Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England (1680/30)
1650-0420 Felice Boselli* painter - Piacenza, Italy (1732/82)
1650-0427 Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel* Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V - Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1714/63)
1650-0519 Cornelis Andriesz de Graeff* nobleman/chief landholder/water board member - Den Haag, Dutch Republic (1678/28)
1650-0526 John Churchill* Duke of Marlborough/soldier/statesman - Ashe House, Devon, England (1722/72)
1650-0605 Ogasawara Nagashige* 小笠原 長重 daimyō of the mid-Edo period - Japan (1732/82)
1650-0614 Carlo Alessandro Guidi* Italian lyric poet - Pavia, Lombardy (1712/61)
1650-0725 William Burkitt* biblical expositor/educational pioneer/lecturer - Hitcham, Suffolk, England (1703/53)
1650-0816 Vincenzo Coronelli* Franciscan friar / cosmographer/ encyclopedist - Venice, Republic of Venice (1718/68)
1650-0923 Jeremy Collier* theater critic/non-juror bishop/theologian - Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, England (1726/75)
1650-10xx Matthias Svederus* professor of jurisprudence/active in Finland - Sankt Lars, Sweden (1721/c.70)
1650-1010 Jane Rolfe* granddaughter of Pocahontas - Varina, Henrico County, Virginia (1676/26)
1650-1024 Steven Blankaart* physician/iatrochemist/entomologist - Middelburg, Netherlands (1704/53)
1650-1104 William III of England* a.k.a. William of Orange/Stadtholder in the Dutch Republic/King of England, Ireland, and Scotland - Den Haag, Dutch Republic (1702/51)
1650-1117 Joanna Koerten* painter/silhouette cutter - Amsterdam, Netherlands (1715/65)
1650-1123 Isak Pihlman* teacher/professor of eloquentia - Uusikaupunki, Sweden-Finland (1707/56)
1650-1128 Jan Palfijn* Flemish surgeon/obstetrician/introduced the obstetrical forceps (Main de Palfijn) - Kortrijk, County of Flanders (1730/79)
1650-1217 Christoph Arnold* farmer/amateur astronomer - Sommerfeld, Germany (1695/44)
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