Date | Event |
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Feb 13 |
Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer |
Feb 15 |
Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans |
Feb 19 |
Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) |
Mar 28 |
Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer |
Apr 6 |
Johann Kuhnau, composer |
Apr 16 |
Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum) |
Apr 19 |
Sebastian Duron, composer |
Apr 24 |
Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver |
Apr 29 |
Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer |
May 2 |
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane) |
May 20 |
Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714) |
May 28 |
George I, Hanover, Germany, King of England (1714-27) |
Jun 3 |
Johannes Schenck, composer |
Jun 5 |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744) |
Jul 24 |
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718) |
Aug 21 |
Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building |
Sep 13 |
Daniel Defoe, London, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe) |
Oct 20 |
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723) |
Oct 21 |
Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734) |
Nov 15 |
Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746) |
Nov 20 |
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741) |
Dec 4 |
Andre Campra, composer |
Dec 12 |
Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje) |
Dec 26 |
Peter Schenck, German/Neth engraver/publisher, baptised |
13 |
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe |
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