ON THIS DAY
Born in 1646
35 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
policy advisor, zoologist
- Christian V of Denmark
monarch, art collector
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
samurai
- Godfrey Kneller
painter, draftsperson
- John Flamsteed
astronomer, celestial cartographer
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia
university teacher, writer
- Antoine Galland
collector of fairy tales, archaeologist
- Hortense Mancini
royal mistress, writer
- Maria Francisca of Savoy
royalty
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart
artist, architect
- Glückel of Hameln
author, businessperson
- Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans
aristocrat
- Jean du Casse
explorer, military personnel
- Jean Hardouin
philosopher, numismatist
- Ivan Skoropadsky
politician, diplomat
- Charles Plumier
copper engraver, engineer
- Louise Elisabeth of Courland
princess, landgrave
- Antoine Hamilton
poet, writer
- Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
economist, playwright
- Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle
politician
- Nicolas de Fer
publisher, geographer
- Johann Theile
music educator, music theorist
- Choe Seok-jeong
official, writer
- Antonio Carafa
military officer
- Paul Hermann
botanist, scientific collector
- Eusèbe Renaudot
translator, orientalist
- Joseph Parrocel
copper engraver, illustrator
- Madeleine Boullogne
painter
- Pietro Dandini
draftsperson, painter
- Hans Assmann von Abschatz
poet, writer
- Zeger Bernhard van Espen
theologian, Catholic priest
- Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
aristocrat
- Giambattista Spínola
Catholic priest
- August Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp
military personnel, theologian