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DE SOTO, FERNANDO (1496-1542), a Spanish explorer. 



DIBDIN, CHARLES (1745-1814) [A 3 ], an English song- writer 

 and composer. He was the 18th child. 



DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870) [26], an English novelist, 

 the second of eight children of John Dickens (1786 — ). 



DIDEROT, DENIS (1713-1784), a French writer and philosopher, 

 son of a cutler. 



DIOCLETIAN (245-313), a Roman emperor. His parents were 

 of the humblest class. 



DISRAELI, BENJAMIN (1805-1881) [39], an English states- 

 man and author, son of Isaac Disraeli (1766-1848), an author who 

 was the only son of an elderly man. 



DODDRIDGE, PHILIP (1 702-1 751) [A 3 ], an English clergy- 

 man, the youngest of twenty children of Daniel Doddridge, who was 

 son of Rev. John Doddridge. 



DOLLINGER, JOHANN JOSEPH IGNAZ (1799—) [29], a 

 German theologian, son of Ignaz Dollinger (1770-1841), a German 

 physiologist. 



DOMINIC (11701221), a saint of the Roman Catholic church, 

 and founder of the order of friar preachers. 



DOUGLASS, STEPHEN ARNOLD (1813-1861), an American 

 statesman, son of a physician and an orphan at the age of two months. 



DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM. (1811-1882), an American chemist 

 and physiologist, son of Rev. John C. Draper. 



DREBBEL, CORNELIS VAN (1572-1634), a Dutch philosopher 

 and inventor. 



DRUMMOND, THOMAS (1797-1840), a British naval officer 

 and inventor. 



DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700), an English poet, eldest of four- 

 teen children of Erasmus Dryden, who was third son of Sir Erasmus 

 Dryden. 



DUDEVANT, AMANTINE LUCILLE AURORE DUPLIN 

 (George Sand) (1804-1876), a French novelist, daughter of Maurice 



