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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1650 February 2 Birth of Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn English actress/mistress (King Charles II). [1] February 15 Birth of Anne Jules duke de Noailles marshal of France (hugenot). [1] May 24 Birth of John Churchill first duke of Marlborough, English general strategist. [1] November 4 Birth of William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702). [1] 1651 March 4 Birth of John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700). [1] March 16 Birth of Zaccaria Tevo composer. [1] April 15 Birth of Domenico Gabrielli composer. [1] April 30 Birth of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle French priest/theorist/saint. [1] August 6 Birth of Francois Fenelon France, writer (Playing for Time). [1] November 12 Birth of Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno). [1] 1652 January 1 Birth of Johann Krieger composer. [1] January 7 Birth of Pavao Vitezovic Croatia, writer/historian. [1] March 3 Birth of Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved). [1] April 16 Birth of Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40). [1] May 14 Birth of Johann Philipp Fortsch composer. [1] May 27 Birth of Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts German/French duchess of Orleans. [1] December 16 Birth of Giovanni Maria Casini composer. [1] 1653 January 7 Birth of Bernhard Albinus Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia). [1] February 17 Birth of Arcangelo Corelli Fusignano Italy, violinist/composer (Concerto Grosso). [1] March 25 Birth of Joseph Sauveur French physicist/mathematician. [1] December 24 Birth of Georg Motz composer. [1] 1654 January 20 Birth of Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet. [1] March 11 Birth of Heinrich Georg Neuss composer. [1] May 11 Birth of Cornelis van Alkemade Dutch historian. [1] December 27 Birth of Jean/Jacobus Bernoulli Swiss mathematician. [1] 1655 January 14 Birth of Angelo Predieri composer. [1] January 22 Birth of Geleyn Evertsen Lieutenant-Admiral (Zealand). [1] February 3 Birth of François Fagel Dutch field marshal, baptized. [1] February 7 Birth of Jean-François Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria). [1] April 8 Birth of Louis Willem I Margrave (Baden-Baden). [1] May 4 Birth of Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italy, piano builder. [1] May 13 Birth of Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] Italy, 244th Roman Catholic Pope (1721-24). [1] August 13 Birth of Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet). [1] September 19 Birth of Jan Luyts Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer. [1] 1656 February 20 Birth of Johannes Schenck German/Netherlands composer, baptised. [1] March 10 Birth of Adolf H van Rechteren Dutch diplomat/politician. [1] May 31 Birth of Marin Marias composer. [1] November 8 Birth of Sir Edmond Halley first to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet). [1] 1657 January 17 Birth of Pieter van Bloemen [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized. [1] January 18 Birth of Hendrik Casimir II Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau). [1] February 11 Birth of Bernard Fontenelle France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds). [1] March 18 Birth of Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer. [1] May 5 Birth of Jacques Danican Philidor composer. [1] September 25 Birth of Imre Thököly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule. [1] September 27 Birth of Sophia regent of Russia (1682-89). [1] December 15 Birth of Michel-Richard Delalande composer. [1] 1658 January 8 Birth of Nicolas Coustou French sculptor (Descente de Croix). [1] February 13 Birth of Jan B Wellekens Dutch poet/painter. [1] March 5 Birth of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America. [1] April 22 Birth of Giuseppe Torelli Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi op 8). [1] 1659 January 17 Birth of Antonio Veracini composer. [1] January 21 Birth of Adriaen van der Werff Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect. [1] February 1 Birth of Jacob Roggeveen Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island). [1] March 7 Birth of Henry Purcell English organist/composer (Dido and Aeneas). [1] March 26 Birth of William Wollaston Coton England, philosopher. [1] May 16 Birth of Campegius Vitringa Dutch theologist. [1] December 20 Birth of François Fagel Dutch lawyer/statesman. [1] 1660 February 13 Birth of Johann Sigismund Kusser composer. [1] February 15 Birth of Frans Anneessens Belgian merchant/dean of artisans. [1] March 28 Birth of Arnold Houbraken Dutch schilder/writer. [1] Birth of Georg Ludwig German monarch of Hanover/King George I of Great Britain. [1] April 6 Birth of Johann Kuhnau composer. [1] April 16 Birth of Hans Sloane England, physician/naturalist; founded British Museum. [1] April 19 Birth of Sebastian Duron composer. [1] April 24 Birth of Cornelis Dusart Dutch painter/engraver. [1] April 29 Birth of Matthias Henriksen Schacht composer. [1] May 2 Birth of Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane). [1] May 28 Birth of George I king of England (1714-27). [1] August 21 Birth of Hubert Gautier engineer, wrote first book on bridge building. [1] December 4 Birth of Andre Campra composer. [1] December 12 Birth of Peter Rabus poet/translator (Liberated Britanje). [1] December 26 Birth of Peter Schenck German/Netherlands engraver/publisher, baptised. [1] 1661 January 5 Birth of Jacob Balthasar Schutz composer. [1] April 11 Birth of Antoine Coypel French painter/poet. [1] November 6 Birth of Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700). [1] December 5 Birth of Robert Haley earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14). [1] 1662 January 27 Birth of Richard Bentley Oulton, scholar/controversialist. [1] February 5 Birth of Giuseppi Vignola composer. [1] May 12 Birth of Jan F van Bloom [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized. [1] 1663 February 12 Birth of Dr Cotton Mather witchcraft authority. [1] February 28 Birth of Thomas Newcomen English co-inventor (steam engine). [1] March 7 Birth of Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer. [1] March 16 Birth of Nicholas Siret composer. [1] 1664 January 14 Birth of Simon van Slingelandt Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36). [1] January 24 Birth of Sir John Vanbrugh London, dramatist/architect (baptized). [1] March 17 Birth of Georg Osterreich composer. [1] May 31 Birth of Giulio Alberoni Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal. [1] 1665 January 12 Birth of Pierre de Fermat French lawyer/mathematician. [1] February 6 Birth of Anne Stuart Queen of England (1702-14). [1] February 12 Birth of Rudolph J Camerarius German botanist/physician (sexuality plant). [1] March 27 Birth of Benjamin Neukirch German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau). [1] 1666 February 15 Birth of Antonio M Valsalva Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis). [1] March 15 Birth of Georg Baehr German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden). [1] April 17 Birth of François Valentijn Dutch vicar/writer. [1] April 25 Birth of Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer. [1] December 5 Birth of Francesco Antonio Nicola Scarlotti composer. [1] 1667 January 26 Birth of Henricus Zwaardecroon Governor-General of Netherland-Indies. [1] February 17 Birth of Georg Bronner composer. [1] April 29 Birth of John Arbuthnot Scottish writer (Alexander Pope). [1] May 26 Birth of Abraham De Moivre French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem). [1] November 30 Birth of Jonathan Swift in England; satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal). [1] [5] December 4 Birth of Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer. [1] December 15 Birth of Ludwig Ernst composer. [1] December 18 Birth of Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt composer. [1] 1668 January 8 Birth of Jean Gilles composer. [1] March 5 Birth of Francesco Gasparini composer. [1] May 8 Birth of Alain R Lesage French author (Turcaret ou le Financier). [1] November 10 Birth of Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux). [1] December 3 Birth of Casimir Schweizelsperg composer. [1] December 31 Birth of Hermannus Boerhaave Dutch medical/botanist. [1] 1669 February 1 Birth of Miguel Lopez composer. [1] February 2 Birth of Louis Marchand composer. [1] February 16 Birth of Arnold Boonen Dutch portrait painter. [1] 1670 February 10 Birth of Norbert van Flowers [Cephalus], Flemish painter. [1] Birth of William Congreve England, restoration writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World). [1] February 14 Birth of Georg Gabriel Schutz composer. [1] April 24 Birth of Christian Ludwig Boxberg composer. [1] May 12 Birth of August II the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children). [1] 1671 February 19 Birth of Charles-Hubert Gervais composer. [1] March 26 Birth of Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer. [1] April 6 Birth of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes and Songs). [1] May 21 Birth of Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer. [1] May 22 Birth of Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37). [1] November 6 Birth of Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift). [1] December 1 Birth of Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius. [1] Birth of John Keill mathematician. [1] 1672 January 16 Birth of Francesco Mancini composer. [1] March 30 Birth of Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia (1682-1725). [1] April 6 Birth of Andre Cardinal Destouches composer. [1] April 21 Birth of Johann Philipp Kafer composer. [1] May 1 Birth of Joseph Addison England, essayist (Spectator). [1] May 30 Birth of Peter I "the Great" Romanov tsar of Russia (1682-1725). [1] 1673 February 6 Birth of Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich composer. [1] March 19 Birth of Pedro Vaz Rego composer. [1] April 16 Birth of Francesco Feroci composer. [1] May 8 Birth of Johann Valentin Eckelt composer. [1] May 17 Birth of Jozef LD von Königsegg Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands. [1] May 29 Birth of Cornelis van Bijnkershoek lawyer/president of High Council. [1] December 12 Birth of Ahmed III 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30). [1] 1674 January 9 Birth of Reinhard Keiser in Weissenfels, Germany; composer of 120 operas, from Baroque to Rococo. [37] (January 12 [1]) January 13 Birth of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon French poet (Atrée et Thyeste). [1] February 21 Birth of Johann Augustin Kobelius composer. [1] March 30 Birth of Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised. [1] May 31 Birth of Friedrich Erhard Niedt composer. [1] June 20 Birth of Nicholas Rowe England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane). [1] July 17 Birth of Isaac Watts England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican). [1] October 15 Birth of Robert Herrick Massachusetts, British poet (Together). [1] 1675 January 4 Birth of Bl. Liberatus (Johannes Laurentius Weiß) in Konnersreuth, Germany (near Bayreuth); missionary to Ethiopia, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988. [37] February 17 Birth of Johann Melchior Conradi composer. [1] February 26 Birth of Guillaume Delisle Paris France, geographer (Atlas Géographique). [1] Birth of Johann Philipp Treiber composer. [1] February 28 Birth of Guillaume Delisle Paris, cartographer/geographer. [1] March 17 Birth of Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss composer. [1] March 31 Birth of Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58). [1] 1676 January 19 Birth of John Weldon composer. [1] April 14 Birth of Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer. [1] April 17 Birth of Frederik I [van Hessen Kassel] King of Sweden (1720-51). [1] August 26 Birth of Sir Robert Walpole (Whig) British Prime Minister (1721-42). [1] December 11 Birth of Johann Georg Weichenberger composer. [1] December 19 Birth of Louis-Nicholas Clerambault Paris France, composer/organist. [1] 1677 February 18 Birth of Jacques Cassini French astronomer (rings of Saturn). [1] February 26 Birth of Nicola Fago composer. [1] April 25 Birth of Guillaume Coustou Sr French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly). [1] May 24 Birth of Alexandre de Villenueve composer. [1] 1678 March 4 Birth of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice; Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (Four Seasons). [1] [5] March 15 Birth of Dominique Marie Valet French Roman Catholic/old-catholic bishop. [1] December 2 Birth of Nicolaas S Cruquius Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer). [1] December 29 Birth of Gotthard Wagner composer. [1] December 30 Birth of William Croft composer. [1] 1679 January 5 Birth of Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer. [1] January 19 Birth of Girolamo Chiti composer. [1] January 24 Birth of Christian von Wolff German philosopher. [1] January 27 Birth of Jean-François de Troy French painter. [1] February 14 Birth of Georg Friedrich Kauffman composer. [1] February 24 Birth of Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer. [1] May 12 Birth of Giovanni Antonio Ricieri composer. [1] May 14 Birth of Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer. [1] December 10 Birth of Willem Maurits Dutch count of Nassau/Governor of Zeeuws-Flanders. [1] December 24 Birth of Domenico Natale Sarro composer. [1]