Francis Drake
1540–1596
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
engineer · sailor · politician
Born in Tavistock
Contemporaries
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- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
- Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
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