da: William Kidd

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

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da: William Somerset Maugham

da: William Morris

da: William af Ockham

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da: William Butler Yeats

da: William Seward Burroughs

da: William Wordsworth

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da: William Makepeace Thackeray

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

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da: William Tecumseh Sherman

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In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.

da: William Riker

He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau.

da: William Pitt den yngre

da: William H. Seward

da: William Anders

These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

* 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

The story is the basis of an opera, The Judgment of Paris, with a libretto by William Congreve, that was set to music by four composers in London, 1700-1701.

* 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.

William Congreve, son of the Comptroller of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, became a major figure in the field.

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* May 16 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( b. 1772 )

* January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( d. 1828 )

* January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright ( b. 1670 )

* Love for Love by William Congreve ( New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, November 1974 )