Date | Event |
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Feb 1 |
Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (d. 1748) |
Feb 12 |
Cotton Mather, Boston Massachusetts, American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials) |
Feb 25 |
Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718) |
Feb 28 |
Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine) |
Mar 6 |
Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732) |
Mar 7 |
Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer |
Mar 16 |
Nicholas Siret, composer |
Mar 22 |
August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727) |
May 20 |
William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752) |
Jun 24 |
Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742) |
Jul 1 |
Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer |
Jul 20 |
Pierre Drevet, French engraver |
Aug 31 |
Guillaume Amontons, French physicist |
Sep 20 |
Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer |
Oct 9 |
Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia) |
Oct 16 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) |
Oct 18 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, Paris France, famous military commander for the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottomans and the French |
Nov 13 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer |
Nov 14 |
Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer |
Nov 26 |
Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) |
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