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Events on Saturday 26 May 1703 1
1633 – 1703Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)Died 26 May 1703, aged 70Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and diarist whose detailed private journal, kept from 1660 to 1669, offers an unmatched eyewitness account of Restoration London, including the Great Plague and the Great Fire. He later served as an influential administrator of the Royal Navy.