Notable Birthdays - 1688
1688 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 18 |
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) |
Jan 23 |
Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) |
Jan 25 |
Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713) |
Jan 28 |
Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter |
Jan 29 |
Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom) |
Feb 4 |
Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne) |
Feb 4 |
Marivaux, The Triumph of Love |
Feb 7 |
Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange |
Mar 25 |
Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer |
Apr 4 |
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) |
Apr 15 |
Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer |
May 21 |
Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744) |
May 22 |
Alexander Pope, Acis and Galatea |
May 25 |
Christian August Jacobi, composer |
Jun 10 |
James Francis Edward Stuart 'The old Pretender', claimed thrones of England and Scotland as James III/James VIII (d. 1766) |
Jul 1 |
Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer |
Jul 19 |
Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766) |
Aug 14 |
Frederik Willem I, king of Prussia (bodyguard of giants) |
Aug 15 |
Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740) |
Sep 5 |
Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice) |
Sep 12 |
Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731) |
Sep 13 |
Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer |
Sep 17 |
Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714) |
Sep 26 |
Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist |
Oct 17 |
Domenico Zipoli, composer |
Oct 19 |
William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752) |
Oct 22 |
Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747) |
Nov 11 |
Lorenzo Somis, composer |
Nov 15 |
Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757) |
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