Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 4 |
Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742) |
Jan 16 |
Francesco Mancini, composer |
Jan 18 |
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731) |
Feb 13 |
Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731) |
Feb 26 |
Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757) |
Mar 12 |
Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729) |
Apr 6 |
Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer |
Apr 21 |
Johann Philipp Kafer, composer |
May 1 |
Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) |
Jun 9 |
Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) |
Jun 11 |
Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer |
Aug 2 |
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) |
Sep 8 |
Nicolas de Grigny, composer |
Oct 11 |
Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742) |
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