William Wotton

William Wotton was an English theologian, classical scholar and linguist. He is chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In Wales he is remembered as the collector and first translator of the ancient Welsh laws. ^{William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (d. 1727)}

13 August 1666

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Born in the same month (August 1666): Maria Sophia of Neuburg