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Last updated: 2008 August 9.

1680 January 3 Birth of Johann Baptist Zimmermann German stucco worker. [1] February 25 Birth of Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz composer. [1] March 20 Birth of Baron Emanuele d' Astorga Italian composer (Stabat mater). [1] May 5 Birth of Giuseppe Porsile composer. [1] May 21 Birth of Frederich Karl Erbach composer. [1] 1681 January 20 Birth of Francesco Bartolomeo Conti composer. [1] March 14 Birth of Georg Philipp Telemann Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer. [1] March 30 Birth of Pieter Snyers Flemish painter/engraver. [1] April 11 Birth of Anne Danican Philidor composer. [1] June 18 Birth of Feofan Prokopovich theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer. [1] 1682 February 13 Birth of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venice, painter (Fortune Teller). [1] March 7 Birth of Johan W van Ripperda Dutch diplomat/baron/duke. [1] April 3 Birth of Johann Valentin Rathgeber German benedictine/composer. [1] April 11 Birth of Jean-Joseph Mouret composer. [1] April 15 Birth of John van Huysum Dutch painter (flowers/fruit). [1] April 16 Birth of John Hadley mathematician/inventor (first reflecting telescope). [1] April 22 Birth of Willem I Kerricx the Young Flemish architect/sculptor/painter. [1] June 27 Birth of Charles XII king of Sweden (1697-1718). [1] 1683 January 6 Birth of François de La Croix composer. [1] January 10 Birth of Gasparo Visconti composer. [1] January 13 Birth of Christoph Graupner in Kirchberg, Germany; composer. [1] [37] January 14 Birth of Gottfried Silbermann in Kleinbobritzsch, Germany; builder of spinets, clavichords, harpsichords and organs in the age of Bach. [37] January 17 Birth of Gerard van Loon Dutch historian. [1] February 19 Birth of King Philip V France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46). [1] February 28 Birth of René-Antoine de Réaumur France, biologist/engineer. [1] March 11 Birth of Giovanni Veneziano composer. [1] April 17 Birth of Johann David Heinichen composer. [1] September 25 Birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized). [1] November 10 Birth of George II king of England (1727-60). [1] December 19 Birth of Philip V Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46). [1] 1684 January 14 Birth of Jean-Baptiste Vanloo French painter. [1] February 16 Birth of Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky Czechoslovakian monk/composer. [1] February 21 Birth of Justus van Effen writer/founder (Holland Spectator). [1] February 22 Birth of William Pulteney London, statesman (Earl of Bath). [1] February 24 Birth of Catherine I Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia. [1] March 26 Birth of Johann Graf composer. [1] March 31 Birth of Francesco Durante composer. [1] April 15 Birth of Catherine I empress of Russia (1725-27). [1] September 18 Birth of Johann Gottfried Walther Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer. [1] December 3 Birth of Ludvig Baron Holberg a founder of Danish and Norwegian literature. [1] December 22 Birth of Johann J Dillenius [Dillen] German botanist (Historia Muscorum). [1] 1685 January 7 Birth of Gerard George Clifford Dutch director of East India Company. [1] January 18 Birth of Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch Classical prof, baptized. [1] February 10 Birth of Aaron Hill English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara). [1] February 23 Birth of George Frideric Händel Halle Germany, organist/baroque composer (Messiah). [1] March 12 Birth of George Berkeley Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne. [1] March 17 Birth of Jean-Marc Nattier French portrait painter. [1] March 21 Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach, Germany; composer (Matthäus-Passion). [1] [5] June 30 Birth of John Gay author (Baggars' Opera). [1] August 18 Birth of Brook Taylor England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem. [1] September 16 Birth of John Gay poet (Beggar's Opera). [1] October 1 Birth of Charles VI Holy Roman emperor (1711-40). [1] October 26 Birth of Domenico Scarlatti Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist. [1] December 12 Birth of Lodovico Giustini composer. [1] December 16 Birth of Charles Cressent France, cabinetmaker (Régence). [1] 1686 January 19 Birth of Hakuin Ekakuborn Japan, Zen Buddhist. [1] February 10 Birth of Johann F Gronovius Dutch physician/botany. [1] February 26 Birth of Godefroi L Count d'Estrades French diplomat. [1] May 14 Birth of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Germany, inventor (thermometer). [1] August 9 Birth of Benedetto Marcello Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare). [1] December 25 Birth of Giovanni Battista Somis composer. [1] 1687 January 30 Birth of [Johann] Balthasar Neumann German architect, baptized. [1] February 19 Birth of Johann Adam Birkenstock composer. [1] March 30 Birth of Johann Balthasar Freisslich composer. [1] December 5 Birth of Francesco Xaverio Geminiani composer. [1] December 26 Birth of Johann Georg Pisendel German violinist/composer. [1] 1688 January 28 Birth of Jan Maurits Quinkhard Dutch portrait painter. [1] January 29 Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom). [1] February 4 Birth of Pierre De Marivaux Paris France, writer (Marianne). [1] February 7 Birth of Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange. [1] March 25 Birth of Johann Gotthilf Ziegler composer. [1] April 15 Birth of Johann Friedrich Fasch composer. [1] May 21 Birth of Alexander Pope England, poet (Rape of the Lock). [1] May 25 Birth of Christian August Jacobi composer. [1] August 15 Birth of Frederick-William I king of Prussia (1713-1740). [1] 1689 January 18 Birth of Charles de Montesquieu France, philosopher/writer (Lettres Persanes). [1] January 29 Birth of Hubert K Poot Dutch poet. [1] April 15 Birth of Ferdinand Zellbell composer. [1] May 26 Birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English essayist, feminist, eccentric. [1] August 19 Birth of Samuel Richardson English novelist (Pamela) (baptized). [1] December 23 Birth of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier composer. [1] December 24 Birth of French van Mieris "the Young" Dutch painter/historian. [1] 1690 January 13 Birth of Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel composer. [1] February 1 Birth of Francesco Maria Veracini Italian opera composer. [1] February 21 Birth of Christoph Stoltzenberg composer. [1] February 28 Birth of Aleksei P Romanov Russia, son of Peter the Great. [1] March 1 Birth of Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel composer. [1] March 18 Birth of Christian Goldbach German mathematician (Goldbach position). [1] April 22 Birth of John Carteret Earl Granville (Conservative), English chief minister (1722-42). [1] April 25 Birth of Gottlieb Theophil Muffat composer. [1] 1691 January 28 Birth of Johann Balthasar Konig composer. [1] May 3 Birth of Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour). [1] May 17 Birth of Antoine Court French reformed theologist. [1] December 10 Birth of Cornelis Pronk Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist. [1] 1692 January 6 Birth of Rynoldus Popma van Oevering composer. [1] February 29 John Byrom is born (dies 1763). [5] Birth of Edward Cave England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine). [1] March 14 Birth of Peter Musschenbroek Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar). [1] April 8 Birth of Giuseppe Tartini Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo). [1] May 3 Birth of Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51). [1] May 18 Birth of Joseph Butler Wantage Berkshire, theologian. [1] 1693 January 25 Birth of Anna Ivanova Romanova daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia (1730-40). [1] January 28 Birth of Anna "Ivanovna" tsarina of Russia (1730-40). [1] Birth of Gregor Joseph Werner composer. [1] February 4 Birth of George Lillo bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant). [1] February 7 Birth of Anna Ivanova Romanova empress of Russia (1730-40). [1] March 7 Birth of Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69). [1] 1694 January 30 Birth of Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster composer. [1] April 7 Birth of Coelestin Praelisauer composer. [1] June 4 Birth of François Quesnay France, economist, leader of the Physiocrats. [1] September 22 Birth of Lord Chesterfield letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752). [1] November 21 Birth of Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, thinker. [1] December 28 Birth of Ceslav Vanura composer. [1] 1695 January 6 Birth of Giuseppe Sammartini composer. [1] January 9 Birth of John E Loovens lawyer. [1] February 6 Birth of Andre Cheron composer. [1] April 8 Birth of Johann C Günther writer. [1] April 10 Birth of Balthazar Huydecoper Dutch translator/historian. [1] April 12 Birth of Caspar Burman historian/mayor (Utrecht Netherlands). [1] 1696 February 10 Birth of Johann Melchior Molter composer. [1] February 17 Birth of Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer. [1] February 29 Birth of Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer. [1] March 5 Birth of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice). [1] March 13 Birth of Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal. [1] April 4 Birth of Giovanni Battista Tiepoldo painter. [1] April 16 Birth of Giovanni Battista Tupolo Italian painter. [1] May 23 Birth of Johann Caspar Vogler composer. [1] August 2 Birth of Mahmud I Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians and Russians. [1] December 22 Birth of James Oglethorpe England, general/author/colonizer (Georgia). [1] 1697 January 1 Birth of Johann Pfeiffer composer. [1] January 16 Birth of Richard Savage poet. [1] January 30 Birth of Johann Joachim Quantz German royal flautist/composer. [1] February 17 Birth of Louis-Maurice de La Pierre composer. [1] February 24 Birth of Bernard S Albinus [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist. [1] March 9 Birth of Friederike C Neuber German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz). [1] March 30 Birth of John-Baptist Xavery Flemish sculptor. [1] April 1 Birth of Abbé Prévost French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut). [1] April 8 Birth of Pierre Prowo composer. [1] April 16 Birth of Johann Gottlieb Gorner composer. [1] April 23 Birth of George Baron Anson British Admiral/explorer. [1] May 10 Birth of Jean Marie I'aine Leclair composer. [1] August 6 Birth of Charles VII Holy Roman emperor (1742-45). [1] October 18 Birth of Canaletto Venetian painter (Venicei A Regatta on Grand Canal). [1] November 10 Birth of William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress). [1] December 5 Birth of Carlo Arrigoni composer. [1] Birth of Giuseppe de Majo composer. [1] 1698 February 4 Birth of Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian General. [1] February 16 Birth of Pierre Bouguer French mathematician (heliometer). [1] March 6 Birth of John Alberti Dutch theologist/philologist. [1] March 10 Birth of Gaetano Maria Schiassi composer. [1] April 5 Birth of Georg Gottfried Wagner composer. [1] April 28 Birth of Karel Jozef ruler of Batthyányi. [1] December 25 Birth of Jacobus Houbraken Dutch engraver/illustrator. [1] 1699 January 2 Birth of Osman III sultan (Turkey). [1] January 9 Birth of Robert J Pothier French lawyer. [1] February 17 Birth of Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff German architect (Sanssouci). [1] March 23 Birth of John Bartram naturalist/explorer, father of American botany. [1] March 25 Birth of Johann Adolf Hasse composer. [1] April 7 Birth of Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer composer. [1] April 17 Birth of Robert Blair Scottish poet (Grave). [1] December 23 Birth of Joseph Gibbs composer. [1]