Notable Deaths - 1704
1704 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 21 |
Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 |
Feb 2 |
Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62 |
Feb 23 |
Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 |
Feb 24 |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies |
Mar 17 |
Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63 |
Apr 8 |
Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) |
Apr 8 |
Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641) |
Apr 10 |
William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629) |
Apr 12 |
John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76 |
Apr 12 |
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer, dies at 77 |
May 3 |
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59 |
May 13 |
Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632) |
Jun 18 |
Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662) |
Jun 30 |
John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665) |
Jul 3 |
Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) |
Jul 17 |
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer |
Jul 20 |
Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620) |
Aug 14 |
Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675) |
Oct 1 |
Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44 |
Oct 28 |
John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72 |
Nov 4 |
Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654) |
Nov 20 |
Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646) |
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