Coenraad van Beuningen was the Dutch Republic's most experienced diplomat, burgomaster of Amsterdam in 1669, 1672, 1680, 1681, 1683 and 1684, and from 1681 a Dutch East India Company director. He probably was bipolar, becoming unstable after the loss of his fortune in 1688.

Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist scholar and manuscript collector.