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Famous People Born in August 1632

  • Aug 2 Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner), born in Erfurt, Germany (d. 1707)
  • Aug 20 Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher, born in Bourges, France (d. 1704)

John LockeJohn Locke (1632-1704)

Aug 29 English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England

John Locke


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