Date | Event |
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Jan 15 |
Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609) |
Jan 21 |
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 |
Feb 18 |
Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62 |
Mar 19 |
Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612) |
Mar 29 |
Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667) |
May 2 |
Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613) |
Jul 10 |
François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610) |
Jul 13 |
Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631) |
Jul 21 |
Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded |
Jul 30 |
Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44 |
Aug 18 |
Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625) |
Aug 24 |
John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616) |
Aug 26 |
Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76 |
Sep 5 |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 |
Sep 9 |
Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded |
Sep 12 |
Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40 |
Oct 8 |
Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 |
Dec 7 |
John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653) |
Dec 15 |
Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593) |
Dec 25 |
Kara Mustafa Pasha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83) and Ottoman general, executed. (b. 1634) |
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