It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

Daniel Defoe (; ca.

Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* The Journeys of Daniel Defoe around Britain ( from a Vision of Britain )

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

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* 1660 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian ( d. 1741 )

* May 25 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian ( b. 1660 )

* April 24 or April 26 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

In October 1660, at Charing Cross or Tyburn, London, ten were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scroope, John Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had signed the king's death warrant ; the preacher Hugh Peters ; Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtell, who commanded the guards at the king's trial and execution ; and John Cooke, the solicitor who directed the prosecution.

Other early novelists include Daniel Defoe ( born 1660 ) and Jonathan Swift ( born 1667 ).

Their son, Daniel Ernst Jablonski ( 1660 – 1741 ), Comenius's grandson, later went to Berlin in 1693 ; there he became the highest official pastor at the court of King Frederick I of Prussia ( reigned 1701 – 1713 ).

In a more profane manner, the hero or heroine follows a picaresque itinerary such as in Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547 – 16 ), Daniel Defoe ( 1660 – 1731 ), Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 1764 ) and Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 1771 ).

Hatfield was founded in 1660 on land granted to General Daniel Dennison and Governor William Bradford.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski ( November 20, 1660 Nassenhuben – May 25, 1741 Berlin ), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

* Daniel Axtell ( 1622 – 1660 ), captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial of King Charles I

Colonel Daniel Axtell ( 1622 – 19 October 1660 ) was Captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial of King Charles I at Westminster Hall in 1649.

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player

* 1956 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist

* 1994 – Daniel Gabori, Hungarian actor

* 1986 – Daniel Dickey, American comedian and writer

* 1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist ( d. 2011 )

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1974 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician ( Broder Daniel )

* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor

* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter

* 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower ( d. 1959 )

* 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist

* 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

* 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

* 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor

* 1980 – Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )