Jul 2 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
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Jul 2 Abraham a Santa Clara [Johann Ulrich Megerle], German Augustinian friar and preacher, born in Kreenheinstetten, Germany (d. 1709)
Jul 22 Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar, linguist (Nederduitsche Spraekkunst), poet, and lexicographer, born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1711) [O.S. birthday July 12]
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