ON THIS DAY
Born in 1656
47 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Edmond Halley
mathematician, climatologist
- Kateri Tekakwitha
religious sister
- Guru Har Krishan
guru
- Marin Marais
composer, viol player
- Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark
painter, patron of the arts
- Guillaume Dubois
minister, archbishop
- Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
botanist, professor
- Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
diplomat, politician
- Nicolas de Largillière
visual artist, architectural drafter
- Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland
politician
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
sculptor, medalist
- François Le Fort
military personnel, politician
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
organist, bandleader
- William Molyneux
astronomer, politician
- John Leake
admiral, politician
- Joachim Bouvet
missionary, cartographer
- Ferdinand de Marsin
diplomat
- Francesco Trevisani
teacher, painter
- Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg
aristocrat
- Chey Chestha III
king
- Jan Frans van Douven
painter
- Robert de Cotte
architect, designer
- Nicolaas Hartsoeker
instrument maker, university teacher
- Claude de Forbin Gardane
Governor of Bangkok, naval officer
- Johann Paul von Westhoff
professor, violinist
- Nikita Demidov
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Charles Davenant
economist, politician
- Willem Wissing
painter
- Giacomo Serpotta
draftsperson, decorator
- Marie Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt
aristocrat
- Benoît de Maillet
naturalist, diplomat
- Hans Caspar von Bothmer
diplomat, politician
- Maximilian Charles, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
military personnel, politician
- Jacques François de Chastenet de Puységur
military personnel
- Catharina Cramer
midwife, gynecologist
- Jean Galbert de Campistron
librettist, writer
- Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein
art collector, politician
- Adriana Spilberg
painter
- Christian Knaut
librarian, botanist
- Maria Selvaggia Borghini
translator, writer
- John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg
aristocrat
- Paul Aler
philosopher, philologist