Salima Sultan Begum

1539–1612

third wife of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1539–1613)

poet

Born in Kannauj

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• Michelangelo (1475–1564)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)

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