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Died on this day in 1705 aged 36 Sophia of Hanover(my toy,wikipedia). Sophia Charlotte was Queen (by marriage) of Prussia and the sister of George I. Perhaps the most interesting thing about her is that she was friends with Liebniz, which possibly means she is in that interminable series of books by Neil Stephenson, but I can't recall if she is.

Born on this day in 1707 to King George II of GB and Caroline of Ansbach Frederick Prince of Wales(my toy,wikipedia). Frederick was the eldest son of George II, but predeceased him, so his (Frederick's) son George became George III.

A look back at January:

104 people were born, and 165 people died, in January (out of 3000-and some people, but many of them I don't have proper dates for). Maybe there is some interesting question about which months have more births/deaths?
(they are all here:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~naath/birthday.py?date=1-0). Ya'll found some errors (mostly fixed), and suggested some things (mostly not... um). I'd link to the things wot I wrote, but since I wrote basically nowt else you can just go to my journal and scroll through them (also I probably repeated myself a bit);-p