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Desiderius Erasmus:
On October 27, c. 1466, Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer, scholar, and humanist, the chief interpreter in northern Europe of the intellectual currents of the Renaissance, was born in Rotterdam, or possibly Gouda, the Netherlands (d. 1536).
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