John Oldham (poet)

John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator. John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate, was one of his admirers and upon his death wrote an elegy "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham".

9 August 1653

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Born in the same month (August 1653): Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle