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Callisthenes, philosopher and historian

Cabot, Sebastian (son of John) navigator
Cabral, Pedro Alvarez, navigator

Cabrera, don Ramon, military commander for Don Carlos
Cadet De Grassicourt, Charles L., chemist and philosopher
Cadamosta, Louis da, navigator

Ital.
Port.

Span.
Fr.

Ital.
Fr.

Caille, Rene,Voyage à Tembouctou,' &c.

Rom.

Ital.

Gr.

Calaber, Quintus, poet

Span.

Ital.

Cæsar, Caius Julius, warrior, statesman, and author
Cajetan, Cardinal, diplomatist and author

Calderon de la Barca, don Pedro, dramatist"

Calepino, Ambrose, author of a Lexicon in 11 languages

Amer. Calhoun, John C., senator of the U. S.

Calippus, astronomer and mathematician
Callimachus, a poet

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Calmet, Augustine, an erudite divine and author

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Calogera, Angelo, a learned monk and author

1699

1768

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Amer. Calvert, Leonard, first governor of Maryland [See Baltimore]

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Carleton, Sir Guy, military commander, and governor of Canada.
Carli, John Rinaldo, count de, author

Span. Carlos, don, son of Philip II. (hero of Schiller's tragedy)

Port.

-, don M. J.

Scotch. Carlyle, Thomas, historian and metaphysician
Carneades, philosopher, founder of the 3d Academy
Carnot, Lazarus Nicholas, revolutionist
Carrel, Armand, historian and metaphysician
Carter, Elizabeth, a learned translatress, &c.
Nathaniel H., a scholar and traveller
Cartwright, Major John, parliament reformer
Carus, C. G., writer on anatomy and physiology.
Amer. Carver, Jonathan, traveller and author

Eng.
Ger.

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John, first governor of Plymouth colony

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Cary, Henry F., poet-translator of 'Dante'

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Span. Casas, Bartholomew de las, philanthropist and historian
Cassini, John Dominic, astronomer

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Cato, Marcus Portius, the Censor, statesman and author
Marco Porcius, of Utica,' statesman

Cauchy, Aug. L., mathematician

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Caussin, Nicholas, a Jesuit, author of The Holy Court'
Cavaignac, Gen., military commander and statesman
Cavendish, Sir William, courtier and writer

Thomas, navigator

Caxton, William, the introducer of printing into England
Cazales, James A. M. de, an eloquent orator

Caylus, A. C. P., count de, miscellaneous writer

Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius, a celebrated physician

--, an Epicurean philosopher

Censorius, a critic and grammarian

Centlivre, Susanna, a dramatic writer

Cervantes, Saavedra Michael, author of Don Quixotte'
Cesarotti, Melchior, a voluminous author
Scotch. Chalmers, George, miscellaneous writer

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Alex., General Biographical Dictionary,' &c.
Thomas, D. D., theologian and political economist

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Chambers, Sir William, an architect

1796

Fr.

Fr.

Champollion, the younger, Monuments d l'Egypte,' &c.
Champollion-Figeac, historian and antiquary

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Amer. Channing, William Ellery, D. D., theologian and philanthropist

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Amer. Chipinan, Nathaniel, jurist and statesman

Chitty, Joseph, author of numerous works on law
Chlopicki. J., military commander-dictator of Poland
Choiseul-Stainville, C. A. G., duke of, statesman and author
Christina, queen (daughter of G. Adolphus)

Afric. Christophe, a slave-afterwards king of Hayti

Eng.

Rom.

Chrysiphus, a stoic philosopher

Chrysostom, John, Christian father and orator
Churchill, Charles, a satirical poet

Church, Benjamin, military commander
Cibber, Colley, tragic and comic actor and poet
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, one of the greatest of orators
Cimarosa, Dominic, dramatic and music composer
Cimon, an Athenian general

Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius, the patriot, flourished
Cinna, Lucius Cornelius, partisan of Marius, flourished
Cirillo, Dominic, a botanist and physician

1752

1843

1776

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1772

1762

1626

1689

1767

1820

B. C. 280 B. C. 27

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407

1731

1764

1639

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Eng.

Amer. Clair, Arthur St., a distinguished officer in the revolution
Fr. Clairaut, Alexis Claude, geometrician
Amer. Clap, Thomas, president of Yale College
Scotch. Clapperton, Hugh, traveller in Africa
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of, statesman and historian
Clarke, Samuel, Dr., theologian and philosopher

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Dr. Edward Daniel, traveller and mineralogist
Dr. Adam, a celebrated theologian and commentator
Sir James, medical author

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Clark, Willis Gaylord, poet and essayist
Clarkson, Thomas, philanthropist

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-, Benjamin, a learned divine (in Boston)

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Colombat de l'Isère, medical writer

Ital.

Eng.

Amer. Clayton, John, an eminent physician and botanist

Cleanthes, a Stoic philosopher, flourished

Clementi, Mazio, musical composer

Cleobolus, one of the seven wise men, flourished

Egypt. Cleopatra, a voluptuous queen

Amer

Amet

Clinton, George, governor of New-York, and vice-president of U. S.

-, Dewitt, governor and benefactor of New-York

Clive, Robert, lord, military commander

Cloquet, Hypolite (brother of Jules), anatomist

Clot, or Clot Bey, surgeon and medical writer (in Egypt)
Cobbett, William, political writer

Cogan, Thomas, physician, and miscellaneous writer
Coke, Sir Edward, a learned judge

Colbert, John Baptist, an eminent statesman

Amer. Colburn, Zerah, precocious arithmetician

Amer. Colden, Cadwallader, an eminent botanist, astronomer, &c.
Cadwallader D., statesman, biographer of Fulton, &c.

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Colman, George, the younger, dramatist

Columbus, Christopher, the discoverer of America
Colton, C. C., author of Lacon'

Scotch. Combe, George, phrenologist and philosopher

Fr. Conde, Louis II. of Bourbon, Protestant military commander

Condillac, Stephen Bonnot de, metaphysical writer

Chinese Confucius, a celebrated philosopher

Congreve, William, a comic dramatist
Conon, an Athenian general

1762

1836

(ab.) 1800

1441

1506

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Eng.

Irish.

VII. (Porphyrogenitus), emperor and author
(Paleologus), the last of the Greek emperors
Cook, James, a celebrated circumnavigator
Cooke, Thomas, editor and translator

Amer. Cooper, Samuel, D. D., a divine and political writer

Pruss. Copernicus, Nicholas, a celebrated astronomer-the reviver of the Py-
thagorean system of the universe

905

959

1403

1453

1728

1776

1702

1756

1756

1812

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Corinna, a poetess, flourished in the fifteenth century, before Christ.

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Dutch. Coster, John Lawrence, one of the supposed inventors of printing

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Cranmer, Thomas, a celebrated reformer

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Rom. Crassus, Marcus Lucinius (the Rich), military commander

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Ainer. Crawford, William H., statesman and jurist

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Crebillon, Prosper Jolyott de, tragic poet

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Crevier, John Baptist Lewis, historian

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Crockett, David, eccentric statesman

1836

Eng.

Croly, Rev. George, poet and novelist

Eng.

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Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex, successor of Wolsey

Scotch. Cruden, Alexander, author of a Concordance to the Bible
Cruikshank, George, artist, chiefly caricature
Cudworth, Ralph, philosopher

Cumberland, William Augustus, duke of, military commander
Richard, a multifarious writer

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-, Oliver, military commander and statesman

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Scotch. Cunningham, Allan, poet, biographer, &c.

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Curran, John Philpot, a celebrated barrister and orator
Curtius, Rufus Quintus, history

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Cuvier, baron, one of the greatest of naturalists

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Fred. (brother of the baron), naturalist.

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Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, an eminent father of the church
Cyril, St., the apostle of the Sclavi

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Amer. Davidson, Lucretia M., a youthful poetess of uncommon genius
Amer. Davies, Samuel, president of Princeton College-theol. writer

1752

1810

1721

1802

Daun, Leopold Joseph Mary, count de, military commander
Daunou, P. C. F., statesman and literateur

1705

1766

1761

1840

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Eng.

Davis, John, a navigator-discoverer of 'Davis' Straits''
Davy, Sir Humphrey, eminent chemist

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Amer. Deane, Silas, minister of the U. S. to France

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Amer. Dearborn, Henry, a distinguished officer of the two American wars
Fr. Debrue, William Francis, a bookseller and bibliographer

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Swiss. Decandolle, A. P., botanist,

Amer. Decatur, Stephen, a gallant commodore in the U. S. navy

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Fr.

Fr.

Thomas, dramatist and song writer (son of Charles)
Rev. Thomas F., bibliographer

Diderot, Denis, first editor of Encyclopædie Methodique'
Didot, Francis A., a celebrated printer and type-founder
Firmin, publisher, and member of Deputies
Amb. Firmin, publisher and traveller
Egypt. Didymus, who wrote from 3000 to 6000 works
Pruss. Diebitsch-Sabalkanski, count, military commander
Dieffenbach, J. F., surgeon

Pruss.

Ger.

Span.
Mace.

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Dindorf, William, philologist

Diez, John Martin, a patriotic military commander
Dinocrates, an architect-(built Alexandria, &c.)
Dion Cassius, author of Roman history

Dio Chrysostom, a rhetorician and philosopher
Diodorus Siculus, a historian

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Dodd, Dr. William, miscellaneous writer

Doddridge, Philip, a gifted and pious divine and writer
Doebereiner, J. W., chemist

Donizetti, Gaetano, musical composer

Doria, Andrew, the deliverer of his country (Genoa)

Scotch. Douglas, Gawin, a poet and translator

Gr.

Eng.

Draco, an Athenian legislator

Drake, Sir Francis, a celebrated circumnavigator

Dutch. Drebbel, Cornelius Van, inventor of the thermometer
Droz, Joseph, historical and political writer

Fr.

Dryden, John, an eminent poet

Duchatel, C. M. T., count, statesman and author

Duchesne, Andrew, an historian

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Diaz, Bartholomew, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope
Dibdin, Charles, a dramatic and musical composer

1500

1748

1814

Eng.

1811

Eng.

1849

Eng.

Eng.

Dick, Thomas, author of Christian Philosopher'
Dickens, Charles, novelist

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Fr.

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-,J. B., chemist

1800

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Dumont, John, traveller and political writer

1726

Fr.

d'Urville, J. S. C., circumnavigator

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A. M. J. J., jurist and statesman

-, Charles, baron, jurist and statesman

Duponceau, P. S., philologist, jurist, &c. (at Philadelphia)
Dupuytren, surgeon and anatomist

Durham, J. G. Lambton, earl of, governor general of Canada
Duroc, Michael, duke of Friuli, military commander
Amer. Dwight, Dr. Timothy, an eminent divine and writer

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1784

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1844

1778

1835

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1792

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1813

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