Samuel Pepys' bookplate. The Latin translates as “Mind Makes the Man”
In the year 1660, Samuel Pepys begins his diary, one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration Period (Jan 1), in the Treaty of Oliva, peace is made between Sweden and major European powers (May 5), the first actress appears on the professional stage in England in a non-singing role (Dec 8), the Royal African Company is founded by James II of England, in order to trade slaves along the coast of West Africa - and all these fine people were born:
1660-xxxx Kaarle Claesson Malmsten** father of Johan Karlsson Malmsten - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1700/35-44) aby
1660-xxxx Grace Sherwood* (b White) farmer/ midwife//convicted of witchcraft - Pungo, Colony of Virginia (1740/c.80)
1660-0101 Tuomas Laurinpoika Pänkälä** (b Tusa) father of Simo Tuomaanpoika Pänkälä - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (c. 1710/46-54)
1660-0102 Francis Hutchinson* Irish bishop - Carsington, Derbyshire, England (1739/79)
1660-0110
1660-0119 Kristiern Alander* professor in rhetoric at Turku Academy - Finström, Åland, Sweden-Finland (1704/64)
1660-0125 Carl Gustaf Creutz* cavalry colonel/POW in Russia with extensive correspondence to Sweden - Falun, Swedish Empire (1728/68)
1660-0201
1660-0213 Johann Sigismund Kusser (B) composer/ conductor - Preßburg, Kingdom of Hungary (1727/67)
1660-0219 Friedrich Hoffmann* German physician/chemist - Halle (1742/82)
1660-0220 Leonhard Dientzenhofer* German architect - St. Margarethen, Bavaria (1707/47)
1660-0228
1660-0315 Olof Rudbeck the Younger* scientist/explorer - Uppsala, Swedish Empire (1740/80)
1660-0325 Samuel Crellius* Arian philosopher/theologian/pastor - Kluczbork, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1747/87)
1660-0328 Arnold Houbraken* painter/ engraver - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1719/59)
1660-0406 Johann Kuhnau* German polymath/composer - Geising (1722/62)
1660-0416 Hans Sloane* Anglo-Irish physician/collector/contributor to the British cultural heritage - Killyleagh, County Down, Kingdom of Ireland (1753/92)
1660-0419 Sebastián Durón (B) Spanish composer - Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spanish Empire (1716/56)
1660-0430
1660-0502 Alessandro Scarlatti* Italian composer - Palermo/Trapani, Kingdom of Sicily (1725/65)
1660-0520 William Bradford* early English printer in North America - Barwell, Leicestershire, England (1752/89)
1660-0528 George I* King of Great Britain and Ireland/and the first British monarch of the House of Hanover - Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1727/67)
1660-0603 Johannes Schenck* musician/composer - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (after 1712)
1660-0610
1660-0617 Jan van Mieris* Dutch painter - Leiden (1690/29)
1660-0701
1660-0715 Charles Talbot* nobleman/ politician - England (1718/57)
1660-0727 Johann Patkul* Livonian nobleman/politician/agitator of Baltic German extraction - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1707/47)
1660-0802 Luis Francisco de la Cerda* nobleman/ politician - El Puerto de Santa María, Spanish Empire (1711/50)
1660-0821 Hubert Gautier* engineer - Nimes, Kingdom of France (1737/77)
1660-0827 Claude-François Fraguier* Jesuit theologian/writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1728/61)
1660-0913 Daniel Defoe* trader/writer (Robinson Crusoe)/journalist - London, England (1731/70)
1660-0924 Petrus Elvius* astronomer/university dean - Rättvik, Swedish Empire (1718/57)
1660-1001
1660-1030 Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein* German general - Saberau, East Prussia (1735/75)
1660-1107 Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau* ornithologist - Steinach am Brenner, Tyrol, Austria (1731/70)
1660-1115 Hermann von der Hardt* German historian/orientalist - Melle, Westphalia (1746/85)
1660-1130
1660-1204 André Campra (B) composer/ conductor - Aix-en-Provence, Kingdom of France (1744/83)
1660-1226 Peter Schenk the Elder* engraver/cartographer - Elberfeld (1711/50)
1660-1227 Veronica Giuliani* Italian nun/mystic - Mercatello sul Metauro, Duchy of Urbino (1727/66)
Updated 18.4.2023-5
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