LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Frans Hals	Painter	1580	29-Aug-1666	Dutch portraitist
Jan Baptist van Helmont	Chemist	12-Jan-1580	30-Dec-1644	Recognized discrete gases
Thomas Middleton	Playwright	18-Apr-1580	4-Jul-1627	A Game at Chess
Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresc	Astronomer	1-Dec-1580	24-Jun-1637	Discovered Orion Nebula
John Smith	Explorer	1580	21-Jun-1631	Founder of Jamestown Colony
John Taylor	Poet	24-Aug-1580	Dec-1653	The Water-Poet
John Webster	Playwright	c. 1580	1634	The Duchess of Malfy

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